Word: hike
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...Greenspan's critics, who drew blood for the first time in years after the Fed's last interest-rate hike had dramatic consequences (Greenspan denies being wrong about fighting phantom inflation while tech stocks crashed to earth all around him), will never let him live it down. And when the Greenspan-adoration bubble bursts, it'll make bigger global economic news than the NASDAQ...
...Faculty should reject the proposal to hike term-bill fees. While we disagree with the students who voted against the higher term-bill, their position is understandable: the term-bill may not have increased since 1988, but neither has the number of undergraduates. Students are perfectly capable--far more capable than their professors--of determining for themselves how much they value extracurricular groups, and there is no reason to reject a clear student mandate...
...March 7, the Faculty Council voted to recommend raising the optional term-bill fee that provides funding for student groups from $20 to $35. Though the hike would overturn the result of last year's student referendum, the Faculty Council's decision is a good one, and the full Faculty should implement the recommendations at its next meeting...
While any increase in costs is always marked by opposition, particularly in light of the recent 3.5 percent tuition hike, this increase is a valuable one of which the effects will be immediately visible. Most undergraduates may not know where their $34,269 per year goes, especially in the context of Harvard's $19 billion-plus endowment, but they will be able to observe first-hand the results of more money for their on-campus organizations. Furthermore, the fee is optional, and students who choose not to pay it are by no means required...
...billion of Bush's $1 trillion comes from the Medicare trust fund and should be off limits. Extra tax-cut costs, like making the plan retroactive, could hike its price past $2 trillion. Bush is vague on the cost of his big-ticket priorities. He has allotted $600 billion for private Social Security investment accounts, but Dems say the price could reach higher. And Pentagon officials suggest that Bush's plans to upgrade and modernize the military could cost roughly $600 billion. Missile defense? Another $50 billion to-$100 billion more. Yikes! You do the math. Did Dubya...