Word: digit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayer said he recognizes that the current two-digit inflation rate in the U.S. presented a real handicap to moves to extend U.S. assistance abroad...
Pilot Systems. The heart of the operation is a product-coding system under which each of thousands of commonly sold items is identified by a ten-digit number-33900-10020 for an 8-oz. package of Jones hickory-smoked bacon, for example. Postage-stamp-sized rectangles printed on boxes or labels by the packager carry both the product's code number and a set of light and heavy lines that allow an optical scanner set in the newfangled check-out counters to identify each item. The scanner feeds the data to a computer programmed with the store...
PRICES: The annual rate of inflation will finally drop out of the double-digit range in the first half of next year, then continue drifting downward to 7% or 6% by year's end. This assumes that crops are good and that producers of copper, bauxite, sugar, coffee and other raw materials do not emulate the oil exporters in successfully forming and maintaining price-raising cartels. By all normal standards, though, 1975 will still be an inflationary year; prices for the full year are likely to average 9% or so above those for all of 1974. Reason: they rose...
...many years has a Christmas season begun with so many tidings of spreading discomfort and lack of joy about the U.S. economy. Already racked by a devastating double-digit inflation, the nation is now also plunging deeper into a recession that seems sure to be the longest and could be the most severe since World War II. Consumers who a few weeks ago worried mostly about rising prices now fear for their jobs and incomes as well. For many Americans, the Yuletide will be a time of less elaborate meals, infrequent parties, fewer and cheaper presents...
...direct causes of that beating were easily stated, indeed inescapable: the public outrage over Watergate, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, double-digit inflation and worsening unemployment. These overriding issues coalesced to shape a generally sour mood on the part of voters that contributed either to the defeat of Republican incumbents or to the narrowness of many of their victories, whatever the quantity of purely local concerns...