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...Nine-Digit Zip Codes. The new budget bans them from federal envelopes, so they will be lost in the mail for a while...
...reasons for the upheaval in personal finance are not hard to pinpoint: double-digit inflation and high taxes. There are almost no savings instruments that pay interest high enough to offset their ill effects. "When inflation gets into double digits, you have to do something or else lose the race," says George Sullivan, an IBM executive in Denver, who has switched most of his cash from a bank to a money-market fund. Assuming 10% inflation, someone in the 50% tax bracket would now have to get 20% interest on his savings just to break even...
...Harvard education, the Corporation pointed out that the increase is no more than the average national increase in disposable personal income, that it will not deter potential applicants from coming to Cambridge, and that it will allow the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to keep up with double-digit inflation. Although the Faculty registered a small surplus of $167,000 for the 1979-80 academic year (its fourth in a row), it anticipates a deficit of $785,000 for the just-ending year. And because tuition is one of the most malleable parts of the Faculty's budget, officials...
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...
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...