Music

• Sweet Child O'Mine   Guns N' Roses
• Never Gonna Give You Up   Rick Astley
• Roll With It   Steve Winwood
• One More Try  George Michael
• Anything for You   Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
• Every Rose Has Its Thorns  Poison
• Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car   Billy Ocean
• Man in the Mirror  Michael Jackson
• Look Away   Chicago
• The Flame  Cheap Trick

On Television

• The Golden Girls
• Married. . .With Children
• L.A. Law
• Murphy Brown
• Roseanne
• The Wonder Years
• The Cosby Show
• Moonlighting
• China Beach
• Star Trek: The Next Generation

In the Movies

• Best Picture:  Rain Man
• Best Actor:  Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man
• Best Actress:  Jodie Foster in The Accused

New Toys

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Super Soaker

Politics

• US President:  Ronald Reagan
• US Vice Pres.:  George Bush

1988 Prices

• Bread - $0.61 a loaf
• Milk - $2.00 a gallon
• Car - $14,065
• Gas - $0.96 a gallon
• House - $138,300
• Stamp - $0.25
• Average Income - $38,608 a year
• Minimum Wage - $3.35 an hour