Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CTOC, along with other Cambridge community groups, is also organizing tenants to withhold their rent increases in protest of the rent board's three-to-two decision to approve the rent hike...
Bill Leary a spokesman for CTOC, said yesterday that many Cambridge tenants will be faced with eviction because they cannot afford the 10-to-20 per cent hike in rent...
CTOC also contends that the rent hike is illegal because it provides landlords with more than a fair net operating income...
Last year it was food prices. This year soaring electricity bills could be the main focus of consumer outrage. In Maryland, where the Potomac Electric Power Co. is seeking a 22% residential rate increase, bumper stickers proclaim FIGHT THE HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten...
...Housing Office had hoped that once the dorm was built at Radcliffe it would only be a short jaunt from the dorm to South House--rather than the eight-minute hike from the new dorm to the Quad that South House affiliates will be forced to take next year...