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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maxwell had 28 points, his career playoff high, and a double-digit rebound total. Parish ended the game with 18 points, while the Rockets primary engine, Moses Malone, scored...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Celts Overrun Rockets 109-80; Playoffs May End Tomorrow | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

Thus, in his speech to Congress, that eternal sunny optimist Ronald Reagan spoke dolefully of "continued" double-digit inflation in the six months since his election, of "almost 8 million people unemployed," of mortgage interest rates, averaging almost 15%, keeping families from buying their dream houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Good News | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...frightening doctrines" of the left wing any worse than those of a government that is responsible for 10% unemployment, double-digit inflation and a crippled (and still declining) economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 9, 1981 | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...main causes of the problems for the thrift institutions are double-digit inflation and interest rates, which were both unheard of in 1831 when the first S and L in the U.S., the Oxford Provident Building Association, was founded in Philadelphia. The nation's S and Ls and mutual savings banks today hold $650 billion in long-term mortgages, nearly three-fourths of the U.S. total. But about one-third of those were written within the past decade at interest rates of 8¾% or less. Moreover, during the past two years the costs to the thrifts of acquiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake Dangers for S and Ls | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...league tuition, room and board hikes average almost 15 per cent for 1981-82, pushing costs to five-digit levels in most colleges. Harvard leads the pack at $10,540. Figures from The Dally Herald

Author: By Compiled MICHAEL G. harpe, | Title: NYU Names Brademas As President | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

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