Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinking it good politics in an election year. This is questionable, especially since such an old hand as Dan Reed, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, is dead set against a freeze. He believes that if Americans want social security, they ought to pay for it. (The hike would also mean more revenue for the Government, and a smaller cash deficit next year.) Furthermore, unlike most taxes, those who will pay for the boost are solidly for it. Labor and employers, most of whose pension plans are tied to social-security payments, fear that unless social-security income...
Charm School. In Paterson, N.J., filing a suit for separate maintenance, Mrs. Frances Constantino complained that her husband Michael, attempting to make her lose 55 lbs., had rationed her food, made her swim until she was exhausted, insisted that she take a five-mile hike every day for a month...
Under Hunt's direction, over 40 Somerville and Cambridge youths, ranging in age from seven to 14, whose chief sport had been breaking window's and trampling flower beds, today swim in the I.A.B. pool and hike through the Blue Hills...
...Tuition Hike Increases Need...
Last year, before the annual tuition was raised $200, the college's financial experts estimated that Radcliffe requires at least $20,000 more scholarship income. To get this, the scholarship endowment must be increased $400,000. But the new tuition hike is in many cases the back-breaking straw. Much more that $400,000 is now needed...