Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's books currently indicate a $3 million deficit, and rough estimates show that the tax hike will be in the neighborhood of $6 to $82 per $1,000 assessed value...
Many elevators, however, remained inoperative. Rather than hike up a dozen or more stories by the stairways, many lazy, elderly or angina-prone tenants stayed home or moved to hotels-and resolutely refused dinner invitations...
...citizens of the Center school district in Kansas City, Mo., were turning down-for the third time in a row-a $600,000 bond issue to build a new elementary and junior high school. The same week, homeowners in Ann Arbor, Mich., refused to approve a real estate tax hike to pay for teachers' salary increases; the teachers are now threatening to strike...
...them do. "Nobody really has any contact with the board of governors-it's like speaking to the gods on Olympus," complains Bart Mindszenthy, a campus newspaper editor at Wayne State University. Yet California regents are trying hard: they meet monthly with student leaders, sometimes hike with them in the High Sierras. Governors of Central Michigan University stay in student dorms when they meet...
...over the years. From 58,293 cases in 1961, it climbed to 79,906 last year. One reason is that many lawyers prefer federal to state courts on the ground that the judges are abler, the jurors brighter and the rules fairer. It has not done any good to hike the minimum dollar amount involved in many federal suits to $10,000: lawyers simply sue for more. Though Congress has added 73 district judges since 1961, almost 10% of all civil cases still take more than three years to settle...