Word: hike
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...underhanded method by which the Cambridge City Council proposed a salary hike for its own members, although technically and procedurally sound, is a sad example of public officials deliberately misleading those they purport to serve...
...waste of time." But while the public's time should not be wasted debating nickels and dimes, the council should have been more candid about subjecting this amendment to some level of public scrutiny. Nobody doubts that public officials should have salaries adjusted for inflation. But this particular salary hike yields a net increase, after adjusting for inflation, of roughly 20 percent...
...city councillors voted to bypass a public hearing on a future salary hike for themselves and members of the school committee, deciding instead to go directly to a second reading of the amendment next month...
...HIKING THE MINIMUM WAGE A higher minimum wage is so popular with voters that in March, 78 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined their Democratic colleagues to approve a $1 hike, which would raise the base wage to $6.15 an hour. House G.O.P. leaders have tied the raise to their $123 billion tax-cut package, which President Clinton has vowed to veto. But both parties are so eager to score election-year points that a compromise is highly probable...
...their powers to the ECB. And though speculators' hearts raced Friday after a sorrowful Duisenberg hinted at a euro-buying intervention to goose demand, such moves are usually stopgap measures at best. Long-term, there's not a whole lot Duisenberg can do except wait for Greenspan's rate-hike medicine to take effect in the U.S., because it's the U.S.' supercharged economy - 4.5 percent annual growth to Europe's 3.4 percent - that's the most visible culprit, attracting dollar investment and leaving the euro stranded...