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Thursday, October 8, 1987
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1987
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake
#1 at the box office
Fatal Attraction
$10,554,336
The must-have
Jenga
You Share a Birthday With
- Sigourney Weaver (1949)
- Ursula von der Leyen (1958)
- Matt Damon (1970)
- Bruno Mars (1985)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
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
14,120 days ago
(38 years, 250 days)