Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replanted digit is never anywhere near normal, either in mobility or in sensibility," May said, adding that Bates will have to undergo a lengthy period of physical therapy...
...bond fund. If the 5,000 savings banks and S and Ls in the U.S. suddenly had to start paying comparable interest rates on passbook accounts, many of them would go broke. As it is, an estimated 85% of all S and Ls are losing money because the double-digit interest that they are paying on a variety of certificates of deposit-14% and more-is higher than the 9% or so that they earn on old mortgages...
...last year's 12.4% to an annual rate of 9.5% in the past six months. As all the good news rolled in, Administration officials confidently predicted that with the budget cuts and the tax reductions in place, interest rates would begin falling, growth would pick up and double-digit inflation would be a thing of the past...
Expensive money becomes the newest double-digit menace...
Much of the midyear review was distinctly-and determinedly-upbeat. In March the Administration had forecast a 1981 full-year inflation rate of 11.1%, but that figure has now been scaled back to a barely single digit 9.9%, while the 1982 forecast has been shaved by slightly more than one percentage point, to 7%. The lower inflation reflects the softening demand for petroleum, but some economists are now warning that the worldwide oil miniglut may soon end, sending prices, and inflation, upward again...