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CAUTION: YOU WILL HIKE WHEN YOU HAVE NO MORE ENERGY TO DO SO AND EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NO MORE SKIN ON YOUR FEET. YOU WILL EAT NATURE BURGERS AND WORSHIP CHEDDAR WITH MUSTARD ON A PITA. YOU WILL SLEEP IN THE RAIN. YOU WILL WEAR SWEAT-SOAKED T-SHIRTS AND DON FLEECE SWEATSUITS THAT LOOK AS IF THEY CAME OUT OF A '70'S JANE FONDA VIDEO. YOU WILL LEARN WHAT IS POSSIBLE SIMPLY THROUGH PHYSICAL EXERTION. YOU WILL STRETCH THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT YOU CAN ENDURE. YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A GOOD TIME...
What had many talking last spring was Liston himself. After an April referendum on a proposed term-bill fee hike, Liston admitted to violating council bylaws by directing members to table in their own houses. Liston later said he made an honest mistake...
...June, he said the College administration has no plans to make binding a referendum the council ruled advisory on May 15. Issues on the referendum included a term bill hike and the direct election of council officials...
...like the consumer price index may be less accurate a forecast of inflation than signals from financial and commodity markets. His testimony before a House subcommittee shed some light on reasons why the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates four times in 1994; the board is widely expected to hike rates for the fifth time when it meets again this week...
...percent today. The discount rate and the federal funds rate now stand at 4 percent and 4.75 percent respectively. (Both are rates that the central bank charges banks for loans.) Private banks dutifully took Fed chief Greenspan's cue and raised their lending rates as well.While a rate hike was anticipated, its magnitude was not: previously, economists pegged the increase to 0.25 percent. Today's action has the Democrats in Congress more than slightly peeved at Greenspan. And rightly so, says TIME's Business assistant editor Bernard Baumohl. Because of Clinton's plan to cut the deficit, the current economic...