Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale of 1 to HUD, Frank's transgression is a low single digit: there is no suggestion that he used his public office for personal gain. In the eyes of some, however, private failings are far more serious: they go to a leader's judgment and character, as Gary Hart and John Tower learned. For many people, the fact that the scandal involves gay sex makes Frank's behavior more offensive; among others, tolerance of homosexuality has shielded Frank from sharper criticism...
...demanded immediate steps to combat triple-digit inflation, including tax reform, making the zloty convertible with Western currency and creating a stock exchange...
What athlete works in silence? Not baseball players. (Ask Kirk Gibson about his World Series home run.) Not basketball players. (Nobody shut up for Rumeal Robinson's Final Four-winning foul shots.) Not football players (Although the NFL now penalizes crowds that reach three-digit decibel levels, as well as quarterbacks who pretend they can't call signals when the decibel level is only 99.) What's that? No, golfers aren't really athletes. Just look at Craig "The Walrus" Stadler...
...manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...
...grant adjustable-rate mortgages. The delay left the thrifts in a bind, because interest rates had rocketed from 13% at the end of 1979 to more than 20% a year later. Thrifts were collecting interest rates of around 8% or less on their 30-year mortgages, while paying double-digit interest to new depositors. During 1981 some 85% of all S & Ls were losing money...