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Thursday, May 12, 1988
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The Headlines
Study Suggests One Saturated Fat May Deserve Clean Bill of Health
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Anything for You
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
#1 at the box office
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Rishi Sunak (1980)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
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
Fiber Optic Cables (Transatlantic), Doppler Radar & Digital Cellular.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
13,903 days ago
(38 years, 33 days)