The more of their credit lines they used, the higher their interest rates were raised, from what had been a usual single-digit figure to as high as nearly 25 percent.

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According to analysts' estimates, it could easily knock down the country's annual output by a double digit percentage figure.

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The whole system is exhausting to candidates, exhausting to campaign staffers and, let's face it, exhausting to the public forced to figure out whether 9.4 percent is a double-digit win or just a win.

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Israel is balking at the 13.1% figure, insisting that its security cannot brook more than a single-digit redeployment.

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