Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission announced Monday that it will allow $93.6 million of a proposed $200 million telephone rate hike to become effective within two weeks...
Trudeau's sudden turnaround is a clear admission that the milder medicine he championed during the 1974 election campaign has failed. Although the government has urged business and labor to hold down price and wage hikes voluntarily, inflation in 1975 has run at a discouraging compound annual rate of 12.7%, and government economists have predicted that it could reach 16% by year's end. Wage increases have averaged almost 19% yearly-twice the U.S. rate-even though more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major...
...Countries to be a quiet affair. But few foresaw what by week's end had become a dramatic and bitter tug of war between the cartel's two major producing nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran. After four days of fierce wrangling, the members compromised Saturday on a hike in world oil prices of only 10%, or about $1.05 per bbl., well below the 35% or so that had been bruited about a few months ago. The new price will be frozen for nine months...
Although the resolution was accepted unanimously, several delegates voiced "reservations" to specific clauses. The U.S., for example, refused to endorse a Third World demand for a mandated hike in its foreign aid to .7% of its gross national product by 1980, which would mean tripling current American aid appropriations to about $10 billion a year. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders, leader of the U.S. negotiating team, explained that "the political base no longer exists" in the U.S. for aid programs on that scale. The Americans also voiced their objections to pledging an automatic slice of any new special drawing...
...voraciously and likes to consider himself close in political attitude to the moderate liberalism of Commentary and Public Interest. In reflective moments, he professes to wonder why he got into the union presidency at all. "I never sought this career," he says, "I backed into it. I like to hike, be with my children, make bread and Viennese pastries. I don't have enough time for these things...