Word: hike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memphis' Negroes revert to "lawlessness," as he put it, "we'll knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated. The tax hike passed 3 to 2, which is roughly the ratio of whites to Negroes in Memphis...
...thus losing pounds and pounds of tax money, the government last week was searching for a way to hem in the revenue. It may change the regulations so as to start the adult size a shorter distance from the navel. On that basis the Chelsea girls might hike their skirts a few more inches. Then, perhaps, the government would recover its loss through an increase in sightseeing tourists...
...social situations. So Keve devised a program for a small group of young offenders who stay at home and in school on weekdays, and on Friday afternoons are delivered by bus to a near by country cabin, where they must spend the weekend together. There they play ball and hike under careful supervision by a staff more interested in rehabilitation than in punishment. Every night there are group discussions of problems at school or at home. Each year the high point of the program is the raft trip...
...greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve losses, De Gaulle seems to have managed to stave off any immediate devaluation of the franc. In an effort to ease inflationary pressures within France, he last week allowed new Economics Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to hike the bank rate by 1.5% to 5%, the highest in the Common Market...
...were to maintain this double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched on the National Assembly building, on their way pushing down hastily erected metal barriers and hurling them into a canal. The police, backed by fire trucks, were at first stunned into inaction by the unusual sight...