Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent hike comes in three separate, concrete parts: landlords will be allowed to "pass through" to tenants all of a 21 per cent tax increase instituted last July; all increased fuel costs; and an additional 3.1 per cent to compensate for the cost of living increase between...
...employees' representative association--which is an in-house union, rather than an AFL-CIO affiliated one like the trades council--got a 7.6 per cent pay hike and 15 cents an hour extra for evening and night shift work in its new one-year contract...
...deterioration of Denmark's economy in the past year in large part has been caused by the fourfold hike in the price of imported oil (upon which 90% of the country's energy output depends). With its import prices rising twice as fast as its export prices, Denmark suffered a more than $ 1 billion balance of payments deficit in 1974. Unemployment, at a 22-year high, has cut deeply into some professions. "If you take the No. 6 bus on Thursdays," observes Architect JØrgen Andersen, 39, "it is full of architects on their...
...company and two claims adjusters. To the jury, the case was apparently a classic instance of the little guy v. a big corporation. To a lawyer for Mutual, which has filed a motion to throw out the award, it was a "runaway verdict" that would only help to hike premium costs for all health-insurance policyholders...
...reached a 13-year high of 6.5%, his own top advisers were telling him something quite different (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Both Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, have already let it be known that they favor a gasoline-tax hike. In a joint press conference, they also suggested that they might support a general tax cut, since the re cession is turning out to be sharper than expected. Even Ford's visitors from abroad, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, pressed him to take...