Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenants, married MIT students are refusing to pay a March 1 rent hike of four per cent intended to cover raised fuel costs. James Henley, tenant spokesman for Westgate Community Association said. The increase amounts to about 58 a month per unit...
...notably better in trying to persuade Congress to go along with his proposals on a wide range of issues, from foreign policy (see following story) to tax reductions and energy conservation. The major fight was over Ford's three-stage, $3-per-bbl. hike in the tariff on imported oil. Congress had voted to postpone the hike for 90 days, and Ford had promised to veto the legislation. But to prevent the Senate from overriding the veto, he had to persuade four Senators to switch to his side...
...that the increase would send their constituents' heating bills soaring because the region depends so heavily on imported oil. But Ford was unwilling to go as far as some of them demanded. New York Senator Jacob Javits, for example, insisted that 80% of the burden of any price hike fall on gasoline. Moreover, Ford's offer upset Western Senators, whose constituents drive long distances and are most concerned about how Ford's program will affect the price of gasoline...
...however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain's labor unions, which have been asked to restrain demands for inflationary wage increases voluntarily in keeping with the government's vaunted "social contract." Having postponed voting themselves a salary hike in order to set a good example for the country, many M.P.s had hoped that the monarchy would follow a similar course...
Ford promised to veto the bill suspending his tariff hike even though more than two-thirds of the Senate voted for it -enough to override a veto. Yet in the hope of sustaining his veto, he moved toward a compromise, what he called "committing ourselves to a gasoline tilt." He was willing, he suggested, to let the price of gasoline rise higher than that of other oil products. While his original program would have entailed a 100-per-gal. boost on all oil products, he would now permit gasoline to absorb most of the price increase. He was also considering...