Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amended tax bill, which would also hike levies on new cars and telephone service and speed up tax collections, was expected to win passage this week in the Senate, after which the measure would go to the House for final approval...
...week, as a starter, he presented a new economic plan aimed at wooing voters back into the Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions, a 2.12% boost in France's minimum wage and subsidies for slum clearance and agricultural development...
Verne's underground hike would, have taken far less time, says Cooper, if he had simply fallen into a frictionless tunnel bored through the earth's center. Accelerated by the force of gravity on the first half of his trip, he would have gained just enough kinetic energy to coast up to the other side-against the pull of gravity-in a total time of only 42.2 minutes...
Harper was talking about the amount of power that Washington, whether or not sanctioned by law, can bring to bear on industry. Harper is an authority on the subject: last November, when the aluminum industry proposed a price hike, Administration aides summoned him to Washington and, by threatening to dump Government-held surplus aluminum onto the market, pressured him into rescinding the increase, in keeping with the Government's "voluntary" price-wage guidelines...
...discount-rate hike might seem small to laymen-it rose from 4% to 4½-but the impact on housing is substantial. On a $20,000, 25-year mortgage, an increase of ½% raises costs by $6 a month, or $1,800 over the life of the loan. Conventional mortgage rates have already started to climb-to as much as 6¼% in San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati and elsewhere-and are likely to rise a bit more. Hardest hit will be the Southeast, the Southwest and the Far West, which have to import much of their mortgage money from...