1987-88 Flashback

1988 may have been just another year for most, but for us, this was "OUR" year, the pinnacle of our educational endeavor. Below are just a few News Highlights, Top Movies, Statistics, Songs, and Music Videos from "OUR" Senior Year, 1987-88.

News Highlights

*1987*		*1988*
Evngelist Jim Baker Admits To Making Payments To Cover sexual Infidelity Iraqi Missile Hits SS "Stark" In Persian Gulf And Kills 37 19 Year Old German Flies Small Plane Into Moscow Square Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker Is Replaced By Alan Greenspan Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Is Re-elected For Third Time Oliver North Takes Fifth Amendment In Contra Investigation Gary Hart withdraws from Presidential race when sexual indiscretion is exposed Dow Tops 2,700 338 of 452 are convicted in Mafia trial in Polermo, Italy Died; Fred Astaire , Jackie Gleson, Liberace, Rita Hayworth Dow one day drop of 508 points becomes know as "Black Monday" 50,000 gather at "Graceland", on the 10th anniversary of Elvis's death		USSR Plans To Withdraw From Afghanistan Noriega Indited On Drug Charges Aid To Contras Voted Down By House Prostitute Reveals Liaison, TV Preacher Jimmy Swagggart Resigns Vietnam Plans To Withdraw From Cambodia Beaches Close As Record Heatwave Hits US Increasing Pollution Junk Bond Dealer Micheal Milken Charged With Insider Dealing US Accuses Iraq Of Mustered Gas Attacks On Kurds Bush Wins Presidency 280 Die On Pan AM Flight 103 Over Scotland, Bomb Suspected Jessie Jackson wins 5 primaries on Super Sunday INF Treaty ratified by Senate Droughts cause widespread major crop and live stock damage across US Iran Accepts UN resolution to withdraw from Iraq 25,000 die in Arnenia earthquake Tom Selleck in Magnum PI ends after 8 years Former aid claims Nancy Reagan uses astrology to plan her husbands actives

Top Movies

*1987*		*1988*
Three Men and a Baby		Rain Man
Fatal Attraction		Coming To America
Good Morning Vietnam		Big
Dirty Dancing		Twins
Full Metal Jacket		Bull Durham
Planes, Trains & Automobiles		Die Hard
Robocop		The Naked Gun
The Running Man		Young Guns

"I think that Breakfast Club was the movie of our teen generation. I think it really had its finger on the pulse of highschool life in the 80's. I loved how it showed all the similiarities between all the members of the cast who came from distinctly different clicks. The 80's was full of clicks. These clicks seem to seperate many of us even though we were all going through the same things. I thank God that even though there were definately clicks at Inola High they weren't so stringent or inpenatrable. Most people belonged to multiple clicks that somehow tied us all together" - Eric Deerinwater

Statistics

President:
Vice President:

Population:
Life Expectancy:

Dow-Jones High:
Dow-Jones Low:

Federal Spending:
Federal Debt:
Inflation:
Consumer Price Index:
Unemployment:

Ronald Reagan
George Bush

244,498,982
74.9 years

2,183
1,879

$1064.14 billion
$2601.3 billion
4.7%
118.3
6.2%

Cost of a new home:
Cost of a new car:
Median Household Income:
Cost of a first-class stamp:
Cost of a gallon of regular gas:
Cost of a dozen eggs:
Cost of a gallon of Milk:
Cost of a movie ticket:

$91,600.00
$10,400
$27,225.00
$0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)
$0.91
$0.89
$2.30
$3.50

Songs

MTV Videos
1988

1987

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