Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...
...Crimson there were flashes of brilliance--the game leading 20-point, ten-rebound performance by 6-ft. 1-in. center Elaine Holpuch; the double-digit outputs by point guard Nancy Boutilier and freshman forward Janet Judge; and the two impressive second-half comebacks. But there were also the mistakes--mistakes that forced the cagers to play a game of desperate, catch-up basketball...
Secretary of the Treasury. Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford and helped reduce double-digit inflation to less than 5%, is a leading contender. Another is Caspar Weinberger, who was Reagan's first finance director in Sacramento and who also served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Nixon...
Facing already large tax increases, the school committee was unwilling to grant large pay increases this year. And faced with double-digit inflation, the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) was demanding a big hike; last week, the membership even authorized a strike if the school committee didn't give...
...such overwhelming power, the president needed safeguards to protect him from his often unruly populace. Accordingly, the constitution cleverly shelters the president from the responsibility of day-to-day politics while putting the onus of government failures on his appointed prime-minister. Blame for the country's implacable double-digit inflation and ever-rising unemployment falls on Raymond Barre, not Giscard. The government's retaliatory economics policies have become known as "The Barre Plan." Giscard operates almost invisibly, pushing Barre forward as the government's official bearer of bad news, letting him take the heat for unpopular policies. The result...