Word: hike
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...majority of those surveyed, 51 percent, say Bush's plan favors the rich. Daschle's pollsters tell him the public also suspects that the projected $5.6 trillion budget surplus won't fully materialize to pay for the cuts. If it doesn't - and if Bush keeps his promises to hike spending for health care, education and missile defense - the tax cut will end up being paid for with "a raid" on Social Security and Medicare, Democrats warn...
Students said, however, that the price hike is one of the course's many inconveniences this year...
Course Coordinator Gwendolyn A. Wong said that given mistakes made last year, the price hike was unavoidable...
...high-priced luxuries Honolulu has to offer, don't forget that many of the city's most endearing attractions cost nothing at all. Take an early-morning hike up Diamond Head, for example, the iconic volcanic peak east of town. Or catch the free Kodak Hula Show at Kapiolani Park, a fun 63-year-old institution recently saved from extinction by the charitable Hogan Family Foundation. And whatever your budget, generous portions of sun, sand and surf are free for all along the seductively kitschy, crowded shores of Waikiki...
...Besides the taxpayers' bill for the payoff on the $10 billion, which will likely come out of the state's budget surplus, there will be a ratepayer's increase too, as an emergency 9 percent rate hike allowed utilities will become permanent. But for residential customers, there's a conservation component - rates would go up only if they used 30 percent more power than "baseline" levels set by a formula that takes into account regional differences in climate and energy...