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Thursday, May 18, 1989
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The Headlines
Voters Re-elect 6 to 2 Boards Under Inquiry
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Forever Your Girl
Paula Abdul
#1 at the box office
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
$6,105,120
The must-have
Game Boy
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope John Paul II (1920)
- Bertrand Russell (1872)
- Omar Khayyam (1048)
- Nicholas II (1868)
- Walter Gropius (1883)
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
World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
13,532 days ago
(37 years, 27 days)