Word: hike
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...South Carolina Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, in his capacity as a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has moved to increase funding for the 1984 education budget by $1 billion, upping the eventual outlay to $16.1. Hollings has in particular, gone after Reagan's hike in defense spending as a prime reason for the decline in education, saying in a recent speech. "I think the school children of America are worth at least one weapons system...
Offsetting these cuts, however, is a major hike in funding for work study programs from $550 million to $850 million. The level of Pell Grant funding would remain equal. (See accompanying story...
...best example. Left Tackle Joe Jacoby, an undrafted giant from Louisville three years ago, is now an all-pro. "Running behind Jacoby," Riggins says, "you can't see anything else." Jeff Bostic, a plump center once cut by the Philadelphia Eagles, was hired several years ago solely to hike for kicks (the regular man had contracted snapper's "yips"). Now Bostic is also starting the Pro Bowl...
After a bloody food riot, the President cancels a price hike...
...carriers fanned out through the city to quell the "bread riot." The show of force finally brought an uneasy calm, but only after more than 50 demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Then, in a dramatic five-minute radio and television broadcast, Bourguiba announced that he was reversing the price hike. The cost of bread would drop immediately from 18? to 8?, he declared, while previous increases for such staples as pasta and flour would be reduced as well. "We are going back to where we were," he said, fervently hoping that was so. Once again, thousands took to the streets...