Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard never saw a single digit lets it again...
...poll on confidence in American institutions. At the time of John Kennedy's assassination, about two-thirds of those polled said they trusted that Government was run for the benefit of all the people. But as the nation lurched through the Viet Nam years, through Watergate and double-digit interest rates and inflation and the hostage crisis, the national confidence in Government sank until it reached only a little more than 20% in the last year of the Carter Administration. Since Reagan took office, the figure has been rising steadily. It now stands at ! between...
...late in a June evening last year when a high school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dialed a seven-digit number and logged onto the GTE Telenet Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands...
When she refused to plead guilty and pay $65 in fines and court costs, Nies said, Stewart left herself vulnerable to the four-digit court costs...
Does madame justice really sport an extra digit...