The Reagan Administration

Week of Oct. 18, 1982 The Reagan Administration seeks to defuse criticism of double-digit unemployment by leaking the figures early. Nevertheless, 10% was, as TIME put it, "a memorably round number" and likely to cost the Republicans dearly in November elections, less than a month away.

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