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In 1988
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USSR Plans To Withdraw From Afghanistan |
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Noriega Indited On Drug Charges |
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Aid To Contras Voted Down By House |
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Prostitute Reveals Liaison, TV Preacher Jimmy Swagggart Resigns |
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Vietnam Plans To Withdraw From Cambodia |
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Beaches Close As Record Heatwave Hits US Increasing Pollution |
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Junk Bond Dealer Micheal Milken Charged With Insider Dealing |
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US Accuses Iraq Of Mustered Gas Attacks On Kurds |
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Bush Wins Presidency |
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280 Die On Pan AM Flight 103 Over Scotland, Bomb Suspected |
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Jession Jackson wins 5 primaries on Super Sunday |
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INF Treaty ratified by Senate |
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Droughts cause widespread major crop and live stock damage across US |
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Iran Accepts UN resolution to withdraw from Iraq |
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25,000 die in Arnenia earthquake |
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Tom Selleck in Magnum PI ends after 8 years |
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Former aid claims Nancy Reagan uses astrology to plan her husbands actives |
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Fads; "Elvis Lives", ET, Garfield Cats on windows |
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New Ad: "This is not your father's Oldsmobile" (General Motors) |
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NASA plans to spend $95 million in a 10 year project to search for signals of extraterrestrial intelligence. |
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Faxphones are $1,295 and a Compaq 286 laptop is $5,399 |
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Rogaine shows to be the first big consumer product that grows hair |
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Suction cats like Garfield are showing up all over car windows. |
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"Elvis Lives" phenomenon is big |
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The Ford Probe and Honey Teddy Grahams are new. |
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Orel Hershiser breaks Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings. |
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Top movie stars included: Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Bette Midler and Tom Selleck |
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Soviets and Americans work together to save two whales trapped off the Alaska coast. |
| President: |
Ronald W. Reagan |
| Vice President: |
George Bush |
Population: |
244,498,982 |
| Life expectancy: |
74.9 years |
Dow-Jones |
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| High: |
2,183 |
| Low: |
1,879 |
Federal spending: |
$1064.14 billion |
| Federal debt: |
$2601.3 billion |
| Inflation: |
4.7% |
| Consumer Price Index: |
118.3 |
| Unemployment: |
6.2% |
| Cost of a new home: |
$91,600 |
| Cost of a new car: |
$ 10,400 |
| Median Household Income: |
$24,450 |
| Cost of a first-class stamp: |
$0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88) |
| Cost of a gallon of regular gas: |
$0.91 |
| Cost of a dozen eggs: |
$0.89 |
| Cost of a gallon of Milk: |
$2.30
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| 1. Anything For You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine |
| 2. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean |
| 3. Flame, The - Cheap Trick |
| 4. Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin |
| 5. Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club |
| 6. Seasons Change - Expose |
| 7. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby |
| 8. Baby, I Love Your Way - Will To Power / Freebird Medley |
| 9. Hold On To The Nights - Richard Marx |
| 10. Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz |
| Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses |
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| Bad - Michael Jackson |
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| Dirty Dancing - Sound Track |
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| Faith - George Michael |
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| Hystrtia - Def Leppard |
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| Kick - INXS |
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| Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman |
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| Album of the Year: |
Faith, George Michael |
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| Best New Artist: |
Tracy Chapman |
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| Best Pop Duo or Group: |
Brasil, Manhattan Transfer |
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| Best Pop Female Vocal: |
“Fast Car,” Tracy Chapman |
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| Best Pop Male Vocal: |
“Don't Worry Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin |
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| Best Rock Duo or Group: |
“Desire,” U2 |
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| Best Rock Female Vocal: |
Tina Live in Europe, Tina Turner |
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| Best Rock Male Vocal: |
“Simply Irresistible,” Robert Palmer |
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| Record of the Year: |
“Don't Worry Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin |
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| Song of the Year: |
“Don't Worry Be Happy” |
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| $$$ -Top Movie Money Makers |
| Rain Man |
$172,825,435 |
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| Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
$154,112,492 |
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| Coming to America |
$128,152,301 |
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| Big |
$113,883,454 |
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| Twins |
$111,784,821 |
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| Crocodile Dundee II |
$109,306,210 |
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| Above the Law |
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| Bloodsport |
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| Bull Durham |
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| Colors |
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| Dangerous Liaisons |
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| Die Hard |
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| Major League |
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| Red Heat |
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| Tequila Sunrise |
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| The Great Outdoors |
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| The Naked Gun |
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| Working Girl |
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| Young Guns |
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| Best Actor: |
Dustin Hoffman: Rain Man |
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| Best Actress: |
Jodie Foster: The Accused |
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| Best Director: |
Barry Levinson: Rain Man |
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| Best Picture: |
Mark Johnson: Rain Man |
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| Best Supporting Actor: |
Kevin Kline: A Fish Called Wanda |
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| Best Supporting Actress: |
Geena Davis: The Accidental Tourist |
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| Americas Top 20 TV Favorites |
| 1 |
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Roseanne |
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| 2 |
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The Cosby Show |
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A Different World |
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Cheers |
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60 Minutes |
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The Golden Girls |
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| 7 |
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Who's the Boss? |
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The Wonder Years |
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| 9 |
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Murder She Wrote |
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| 10 |
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Empty Nest |
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| 11 |
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Anything but Love |
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| 12 |
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Dear John |
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| 13 |
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Growing Pains |
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| 14 |
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Alf |
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| 15 |
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L.A. Law |
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| 16 |
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Matlock |
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| 17 |
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Unsolved Mysteries |
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| 18 |
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Hunter |
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| 19 |
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In the Heat of the Night |
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| 20 |
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Cheers |
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| Best Drama - |
L.A. Law (NBC) |
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| Best Actor - |
Carroll O'Connor, In the Heat of the Night |
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| Best Actress - |
Dana Delany, China Beach |
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| Supporting Actor - |
Larry Drake, L.A. Law |
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| Supporting Actress - |
Melanie Mayron, thirtysomething |
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| Best Comedy - |
Cheers (NBC) |
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| Best Actor - |
Richard Mulligan, Empty Nest |
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| Best Actress - |
Candice Bergen, Murphy Brown |
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| Supporting Actor - |
Woody Harrelson, Cheers |
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| Supporting Actress - |
Rhea Perlman, Cheers |
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