Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hemmed In." Last January, President Kennedy proposed that the district's income be hiked by $47 million annually within the next three years by increasing federal payments and raising district taxes. Predictably, McMillan's committee whittled away most of the proposed hike. Later, in a huff over repeated newspaper and TV attacks on the cuts, McMillan announced that he figured the furor had ruined the chances for any raise at all in payments this year...
...invitation came with a letter explaining the rules of the contest: each university would conduct a walk on its own territory, and the winner would be the college with the higher number of participants completing the hike. St. Andrew's is sponsoring the affair in order to publicize a "charity drive" and also to "demonstrate Canada's recognition of President Kennedy's physical fitness program...
...that the New Frontier has launched the 50-mile-hike fad, how about Mr. Kennedy's going one step farther and starting a 90-mile-cruise fad-to Cuba, to see exactly how Communism and its weapons have gained a foothold under our very nose...
...campaign for re-election in overestimating New York tax revenues by some $200 million for the coming fiscal year, nevertheless claims that he will observe his campaign pledge not to raise taxes. He is asking for a $48 million increase in state auto license fees and a $57 million hike in liquor license charges. Without a smile, he insists that these are not tax increases. Irate motorists, many of whose auto tabs would go up from $8 to $20, cannot see the difference. Republican legislators are feeling the heat at budget hearings in Albany...
...fielded. The President's own Fitness Council warned of the dangers to the unaccustomed-perhaps even a heart attack. That was enough for portly Pierre Salinger, who had promised he would carry the Administration's banner in a do-or-die walkathon with newsmen. Salinger canceled the hike, explaining: "My shape is not good. While this fact may have been apparent to others for some time, its full significance was pressed upon me as a result of a six-mile hike last Sunday. I have done little walking since then, except to go from my office...