Word: hike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the city manager's report, budget figures for fiscal year 1985 exceed last year's revised estimates by almost $9 million. The increased expenditures will probably require a "slight increase" in taxes next year, including a nine cent hike in water bills, the report said...
Talks this weekend stalled over job security, and major issues of wages and benefits have not yet been discussed. The union has backed off an earlier demand for a 50 percent wage hike, but is still asking for a 12 percent raise, while Yale is reportedly offering only 4 percent...
...interest-rate hike and fears about more to come sent the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 30 points during the week, after a 44.60-point rise the week before. It finished at 1154.84. Shaky for months, bond prices weakened again. As the markets fluttered, analysts and investors turned once more to their favorite sport: watching the Federal Reserve Board's every move. The policymaking Open Market Committee is due to meet early this week to review the state of the economy and set interest-rate guidelines, and many moneymen fear that it will tighten up rates because...
Nobody knows whether the prime-rate hike signals the start of a new run-up in the cost of borrowing. Manufacturers Hanover's Kellner insists, "There is plenty of money out there. Loan demand only recently began to rise." Others see the prime rate continuing to climb, perhaps reaching 13% by year...
...love steak says, "I won't touch it." At a restaurant, "if I choose fish, I ask the chef to skip the butter or please to sauté it in wine." Every morning, regardless of weather, the man who once spurned exercise goes for an eightmile, two-hour hike through the wooded mountain trails near his home. He no longer smokes. His workdays average between eight and ten hours, but he insists, "I can absolutely stay away from the tension now. If I feel the pressure, I take off. Business associates get used...