Word: hike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march on April 20 to protest the proposed MBTA fare hike...
Even greater than their disenchantment with Krag personally was the irritation of Danish voters with his economic policies. Faced with worsening inflation, Krag tried last December to cancel a mandatory cost-of-living pay hike for Danish workers, but when some of his extreme leftist partners deserted him in a test vote on the issue in the Folketing, he called for new elections. During the campaign, the anti-Socialist opposition shrewdly played on rising Danish concern over increased unemployment (which is at 2.7%, still low by Western standards), a drop in Danish exports, the higher bill for welfare programs...
...Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire all 730 of their out-of-work members...
...farmers' problem is their masterful man-hour productivity, a 5.7% annual hike since 1950, v. industry's 2.6%. Despite a pastiche of Government programs to control production and protect prices, farmers continue to grow more on fewer acres through fertilization, mechanization and technology. Freeman indeed takes part of the blame for this year's bumper crop because he trusted all-but-unanimous warnings of impending poor harvests and drastically increased planting quotas, then watched in dismay as ideal weather brought in history's greatest yields-both of food and discontent...
Hurlburt cited increases in the costs of food, labor and equipment as the major factors behind the impending hike. But the action also takes into account the expenses of expanding the Dunster House kitchen facilities to provide for Mather's students...