Indeed, the last time we saw anything even approaching a 49-month double digit rate string was the 36-month string that gave us the housing boom turn bust turn Great Recession.
Having teed off at the 10th, his round started to unravel when he double-bogeyed the 16th and 18th holes to reach the turn in 40.
"There is no doubt this is a double-edged sword but we don't need to turn the reins over to another stranger, " Dabney said in a telephone interview with The AP.
Els, who won the US Open in 1994 and 1997 and the Open in 2002, picked up three shots in his first six holes but saw his challenge falter around the turn with a spell of bogey, double-bogey, bogey from the ninth.
However, he could not maintain his momentum at the turn and shot a 43, including two double-bogey sixes and three other dropped shots.
For students and parents, that means that there is less of a chance that a family will need to turn to student loans and other means to deal with a scary double-digit tuition hike or a walk across a campus whose maintenance budget has been slashed.
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Soon attention must turn to health care providers like hospitals and doctors, which are issuing double-digit year over year increases of their own to private insurers.
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Muralitharan was born with a permanently bent arm but it is a double-jointed wrist, perhaps combined with the deformity, which is primarily responsible for the amount of turn he is able to obtain on even the most batsman-friendly surfaces.
It's worth remembering that determined efforts by the Bank of England to bring down the real cost of borrowing did turn the economy around after 1932, when the UK confronted a similar double dip recession - in the wake of another major European crisis, centred around banks.
He reached the turn on two under and shot four more birdies on the way home, but a double-bogey at the 13th denied him a better score.
When it said recently it expected the UK economy to shrink slightly in the first quarter of 2012, I did wonder whether the downbeat prediction would turn out to be a counter-indicator - a sign that we had definitely avoided a double dip.
As readers of the Monetary Watch are aware, the run-up to the housing bubble turn credit implosion turn Great Recession saw a string of 36 months of double digit growth for a cumulative increase of 48%.
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