Word: hiked
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Increased scholarship stipends will be "considered" for both new freshmen and for upperclassmen in the Houses. However, it has not been definitely decided whether scholarship increases will take up the full burden of the rent hike...
...hike in France's ridiculously low rent ceilings, which have long been pegged to pre-inflation levels...
...increase, which the Administration hopes to get, would put revenue at about $77 billion, as against spending plans pared to about $78 billion (including a defense budget just about firmed at $41.5 billion). Still under consideration: requests for a 1½? increase in the federal gasoline tax and a hike in the aviation gas tax. If the budget could be brought into balance, President Eisenhower would achieve what seems to be his fondest domestic hope...
...Juscelino Kubitschek offered Brazilians the merriest Christmas in history-a 60% increase in minimum wages, and a 30% pay boost for the army and government employees, effective immediately. Playing Santa Claus would raise Brazil's record budget deficit of $285 million, but the news of the proposed wage hike ended the recent rash of cost-of-living riots (TIME...
...pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line Pilots Association has yet to make a firm counteroffer, except that the talk starts at $36,000. Both sides are so far apart that a meeting scheduled to be held last week never came off because President Sayen insisted on meeting...