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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular, Reagan confronts a Democratic President who, after a temporary surge in the national polls because of the crises in Iran and Afghanistan, is now plagued by declining job ratings. The odds are that by fall, Carter will be trying to defend his management of an economy with double-digit inflation and rising unemployment, gasoline prices of upwards of $2 per gal. and a reduced budget that offends many of the traditional Democratic-constituencies. New York Opinion Researcher Daniel Yankelovich sums it up: "The biggest thing Reagan has going for him is Carter...
...Robert Russell, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, warned before Carter spoke that double-digit inflation would continue through the 1980s...
...years ago, the Argentine post would have been considered a plum, the Canadian one a backwater bore. This time around, however, there were several dozen applicants for Vancouver and none for Buenos Aires. The reasons: Vancouver is safe and relatively cheap; Buenos Aires has sporadic political violence and triple-digit inflation...
...will abate only slowly, if at all. Through the year, the rate is forecast to drop from today's 13.3% to 10.4%. Even if that happens, the 1979-80 period will go into the record books as the first peacetime case of back-to-back years with double-digit inflation...