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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southeast Asia and his Great Society programs. This bequeathed to Richard Nixon a 5% inflation rate, which he tried to curb by tightening credit, raising taxes and instituting wage and price controls. When the controls came off, money under pressure shot into the marketplace, and now double-digit inflation is commonplace...
...opening gun. Talking quietly but seriously for 18 minutes in layman's language, the President asserted that the nation has no choice but to break with its past profligacy. Said he: "We have to face the truth." Ticking off some familiar statistics -back-to-back years of double-digit inflation for the first time since World War I, 7 million unemployed, a national debt of $934 billion-he warned that "we are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us." The fault, he said, lies...
...above cases make up the standard fare of a small claims court. The restriction of payments to monetary (as opposed to equity) payments, limited to $500, exclude more serious cases of life and death or multi-digit law suits with multi-digit lawyer fees. Small claims provides a service to mete out justice in the everyday affairs of the consumer, and for a small fee ($5) anyone can bring forth his or her grievance. As for the hapless student ripped off by the tennis placement agency, she never got justice, but if she had tried a few of the alternatives...
...Crimson's finest offensive effort in six years overtaxed the two-digit IAB scoreboard, which registered the final as 94-7, Yale...
...hike will allow the Faculty to keep up with current double-digit inflation...