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Saturday, September 5, 1987
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The Headlines
FEDERAL RESERVE RAISES A KEY RATE TO 6%, FROM 5 1/2%
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
La Bamba
Los Lobos
#1 at the box office
Stakeout
$7,071,745
The must-have
Jenga
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Michael Keaton (1951)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
PowerPoint, Perl & Prozac.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,153 days ago
(38 years, 283 days)