31.   A run on the Bulgarian currency, the lev, a year ago forced interest rates into triple digits in a vain attempt to prop it up.

32.   Although the Dow has already risen by triple digits twice during the past week, analysts are still skeptical of the sustainability of any rallies at this point.

33.   Excessive heat could threaten struggling crops as temperatures are predicted to be in the triple digits in some areas.

34.   Inflation was almost triple digit, the country could not feed itself and the ongoing U.S. embargo on Hanoi blocked efforts to develop.

35.   Inflation may reach triple digits.

36.   It took investors by surprise and a large percentage of stocks listed on the KLSE had triple digit percentage gains.

37.   Los Angeles has scored in triple digits in six of its last seven games.

38.   News that Microsoft expects to beat quarterly revenue estimates boosted stocks Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite each surging by triple digits.

39.   Summer is the off-season in the desert oasis of Palm Springs, where temperatures soar into the triple digits.

40.   Temperatures reached the triple digits in parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana.