Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor), Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, and Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Party that had been allied with the Socialists and Communists in the elections. Séguy's "demands" came straight out of the handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward, the Communist leader declared: "I am convinced that the [center...
...Students feel mostly impotent about the hike," one student said yesterday. "We don't feel it's by any means routine--it's hard to justify a 12-per-cent increase with only an 8.5-per-cent rise in costs," he added...
Forty Boston University (B.U.) students demonstrated in the rain at B.U. yesterday to protest a planned $400 tuition hike. The demonstration was far smaller than a violent protest held three weeks ago involving over 500 students against the hike...
Protesters attributed the decline to a belief by students that they could do nothing to prevent the hike and said the futility grew from a meeting last week between students and B.U. President John R. Silber, during which Silber explained the reasons for the hike...
Johan A. Madson, dean of student life at B.U., said yesterday the B.U. administration sent letters two weeks ago to all B.U. students explaining the reasons for the tuition hike...