Word: digits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end the triple-digit temperatures that first appeared in the Sunbelt late in June had directly or indirectly caused the death of more than 1,000 people in a triangle of 20 states from Texas to New York and the Dakotas. Dallas, where temperatures have risen as high as 113°, has had 25 consecutive days of 100°-plus weather; Little Rock has had 17 such days. So serious has been the resulting human suffering that President Carter funneled $6.7 million in aid to the six hardest-hit states-Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Louisiana...
...million Social Security recipients are receiving a pleasant surprise this month. Their July checks have been increased by a helpful 14.3%. Like about one-quarter of all Americans, they are receiving a cost of living adjustment (COLA) designed to ease the pain of inflation. As double-digit price rises continue to erode their incomes, many weary consumers see a COLA as the pause that refreshes. But critics charge that automatic income adjustments may push the U.S. economy into a permanent inflation high...
...West Bank (where the population is 98% Palestinian) with a series of ugly incidents between Arab students and Israeli soldiers and police. But the chief cause of the government's rapidly declining popularity at home is the parlous state of the Israeli economy, which suffers from triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing, and unemployment. Following up on a previous decision to slash $140 million from the defense budget, the five-member economic Cabinet headed by Finance Minister Yigael Hurvitz last week recommended overall budget cuts of an additional $108 million. Indeed, Hurvitz is so worried about...
Certainly many Jews are leaving because of the deteriorating Israeli economy. Triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing and unemployment have had a dispiriting effect on the young and ambitious. "Why should I stay?" asks a 20-year-old stationed at a military base in the Negev. "When I get out of here in another year, what do I have to look forward to? Will I be able to find an apartment? No. Can I get married? That's a bit unrealistic without a home. What job will pay me enough to live on?" Says Manny Ender...
Meanwhile, alumni committees began planning spring 1980 dinners to reach potential five-digit donors, while area alumni groups devised strategies for next spring's less ambitious solicitations...