Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Married Student Housing Tenants Council. The tenants council demands that justification for the renovations be shown before they are carried out. The council asks that the rent policy--one which threatens to price Harvard housing out of the married students' market with increases like the 35-per-cent hike of last year--be reconsidered. This high-rent policy discourages the poorer married students from coming to Harvard and is both wrong and unnecessary. The council also asks that the accounting procedures, which fix a huge housing deficit squarely on the shoulders of the tenants who did not incur the deficit...
...tenants council disputes both the need for renovations and the necessity of such dramatic rent increases--like the 35-per-cent hike for new tenants that the University announced last year...
Maeder, who said in a news release last week that Brown will continue to cut expenditures despite the $400 tuition increase, met with the Brown student caucus last night to explain the hike...
...represented 20% of an airplane's operating costs, soared to 33? in the U.S. (72? abroad). The climb at least doubled the fuel portion of each jumbo jet's operating costs. Inflation drove up landing fees, insurance rates, wages. To stay solvent, the airlines had to hike fares...
...increases continue apace, the rate of increase is starting to slack off. Last year's rise in fees was $580, and the current hike represents slightly higher rates of increase in tuition and board and a much lower one in room costs...