Word: hiked
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...issue of Orbis, a quarterly journal of world affairs, Taylor maintains that in the next period of world development the U.S. will find that "the main threats to our security, at least in their initial stages, will take nonmilitary form." As a prime example he offers the 1973 hike in oil prices by the OPEC nations, which he calls "a kind of economic Pearl Harbor in which warnings bearing on its imminence were either ignored, misread, or filed without reaching the officials responsible for action...
...contract for its members. The problem of money was solved rather easily when the young doctors, who currently earn between $13,500 and $19,200 a year, agreed to drop their demands for an 11 % increase in salary. They settled with the League of Voluntary Hospitals for an 8% hike instead...
Solutions are needed fast. In New York, for example, the Argonaut Insurance Co., which was denied a hike of 196.8% in January (after a 93.5% rise last July), plans to cancel all physician policies on July 1. No other company has volunteered to take over for Argonaut, which insures most of the state's doctors. In Maryland, a court order is now preventing the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the state's major malpractice insurer, from carrying out its plan to cancel all physician policies. Similar crises exist in North Carolina, Michigan, California and Florida...
...Congress on another matter. To avoid what he called "a time-wasting test of strength," the President made a deal with the Democrats in which they agreed not to try to override his veto of legislation that would have postponed for 90 days his three-stage, $3-per-bbl. hike in the tariff on imported oil. In exchange, Ford postponed for 60 days two-thirds of the increase-halting the $1 that took effect on March 1 and putting off the $1 scheduled for April 1. Still in effect is the $1 that has cost oil importers an estimated...
About half of the Westgate dwellers have paid their rents without the hike but the other half has included the increase in their rent payments, Kamilewicz said...