Word: hiked
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...proposal from a special congressional commission, appointed last year by then Speaker Carl Albert, to limit the Representatives' outside income and require public disclosure of all income sources and most large debts. The members had been stung by the angry letters and editorials about their recent pay hike from $44,600 to $57,500. Proposed by the Ford Administration and supported by President Carter, it went into effect automatically on February 20 because Congress made no attempt to block it. This procedure had been set up precisely to avoid a situation under which Congress would directly be raising...
Count how many times the words "salary," "negotiation," "re-negotiation," "arbitration," "hike," "cut," "hefty" (with either "hike" or "cut"), "free agent," and "trade" appear in the sports pages this month...
...Fund, which is a "make-it-or-break-it" factor in the Faculty's attempt to balance the budget, prevented next year's tuition, room and board hike from being even steeper than the proposed $475 increase, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean for financial affairs, said earlier this month...
...spite of existing financial aid options, there are undoubtedly numerous qualified students who are forced to transfer or don't even bother to apply because of the constraints that inadequate financial aid programs impose. When Dean Rosovsky announced the forthcoming tuition hike he promised to "generate certain prospects and plans" to further relieve the burden of college costs. But when Robert E. Kaufman '62, assistant dean for financial affairs was questioned about these proposals he offered no concrete plans, adding that the administration's programs would "not necessarily be forthcoming within the next couple of months...
...since students know almost nothing of the University's budgeting procedures. House representatives on the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life budget subcommittee have complained that they never received the financial data food services administrators promised them and thus could offer few substantive criticisms of next year's tuition hike...