Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which receive larger government subsidy is something administrators here will admit readily. In late-May, officials made a clear concession to the rocketing wages of Boston-area clerical workers--they had gone up an estimated 5.5 per cent over the previous six months--by ordering a flat $300 pay-hike for the next year for every non-union employee of the University. Organizers claimed the raise was an attempt to buy them off, but administrators maintained that the decision was motivated by a fair examination of the local economy...
This 9 per cent board hike--representing an increase in the Food Services Department's undergraduate budget to $6.5 million--should absorb the rising food costs, according to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services. "If all goes well," Weissbecker said last week, "the quality and the quantity of the food will not be sacrificed...
...will begin the year's most important contract bargaining by the end of this month. Miller, who ousted the disgraced Tony Boyle in an election in 1972, has never negotiated a contract, and needs a fat pact to solidify his position. Among his desired concessions: a "substantial" wage hike, sick pay and a cost-of-living escalator clause, a pension raise and stricter safety regulations...
...Parisian chemise looks very old to me." Impoverished once by the midi superflop of 1970, other Yankee buyers announced plans to hike hemlines to more profitable altitudes or to use slinkier, clinging fabrics for the U.S. market. "People don't care about what Paris says," commented a liberated pro from one Chicago boutique. "It takes a while for things to filter down. Maybe by next fall it will make a difference-pants are what's selling...
...Premiums in California climbed by more than 400% between 1968 and 1970 and are likely to go up again this year. Insurance rates in Maryland have recently increased by 46.9%, and may soar another 48% if the state's major malpractice insurer is granted its request for a hike. Even in such states as New Hampshire and South Carolina, where patients seem less prone to bring suit against their doctors, costs of coverage have recently moved upward...