Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school absorbed a dramatic 24-per-cent drop in enrollment last year in the wake of a 17-per-cent tuition hike. The school had an enrollment of about 5000 four years...
...more of its oil, most of it from OPEC member countries. By next year the economies of the U.S. and Europe should be getting into full stride, and oil demand cannot help but go up. Then, many experts think, the producers will be ready, willing and able to hike prices substantially; one top Administration official would not be surprised at an increase of 25%. Until the U.S. and other consumer nations can find a way to reduce their reliance on oil sharply, they can do nothing...
...Real Estate Department agreed Friday not to increase rents for married student apartments in Holden Green and Shaler Lane next year. The department had originally proposed a rent hike of at least $40 per month on each apartment...
...because of his inept handling of the city's fiscal crisis. In his first term, he increased the number of city employees by nearly 12%, and most of the 3,787 jobs he created were patronage positions. In 1975 he granted 20,000 city workers a 12.8% pay hike, while insisting that Philadelphia had no financial problems. Yet one momth after beginning his second term, Rizzo discovered a budget deficit of $80 million and proclaimed a "fiscal emergency." Since then he has asked for 20% increases in city payroll taxes, boosts of up to 50% in real estate taxes...
...state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that affects many lives profoundly...