Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending ceiling on every municipality in the state as a step toward meeting his campaign promise of a $500 million reduction in property taxes. Mayors and other local officials protested so loudly that King retreated a bit, agreeing that if two-thirds of a community's voters approved higher spending, its cap would be lifted. Still, most Massachusetts politicians regard the effort as hamhanded, taking no account of growth or inflation. Says a state senator: "Things are more professional on the Quincy city council...
...this aspiration in the face of a budget-chopping mood. He has pushed some increases through the Congress, with total aid outlays of $5.1 billion for fiscal 1978 and $5.9 billion for fiscal 1979. His current budget proposes just over $6 billion for fiscal 1980, and would have been higher, a White House spokesman said, except that larger sums "might have raised the profile of foreign aid and made it even more vulnerable." The proposed 1980 budget is vulnerable enough. While the President shuttled between Cairo and Jerusalem, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was recommending aid cuts of more than...
...basic problem has been the rising cost of food, especially meat; beef prices jumped 30% last year, and some experts say they could increase by 50% this year. The chains have thus been forced to charge more; McDonald's raised its prices last year by about 14%. But higher costs are causing people to order down−to pass up the $1.05 Big Mac for a 500 regular hamburger, buy smaller portions of French fries and cut out dessert...
Another factor has been the increase in the minimum wage, which went from $2.65 to $2.90 on Jan. 1. Higher fuel prices and gasoline shortages may also hurt the chains because people will be less inclined to drive out for a meal. Indeed there has been a quick rise in supermarket sales of fast-food fixin's to prepare at home...
Maui, with its rain forests and high volcanic range, boasts some 1,300 of the higher plants that exist only in the Hawaiian Islands. Indigenous birds include the black-necked stilt, the claw-footed nene, the short-eared owl and the blue-faced booby, and there are such unique fauna as the monk seal, the hoary bat and the predacious caterpillar. (There are no snakes on the islands.) Maui's waters teem with more than 700 species of fish, perhaps 20% of which are to be found only in Hawaii. The island's most faithful visitor...