Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill had even reached committee consideration in Congress at the time Nixon acted. Nor did it report that Nixon's fund raisers received $10,000 from the milkmen the day before he met with them on March 23, 1971, another $25,000 the day after - and that the hike in price supports was announced the next...
...milk officials does not seem conclusive. Sophisticated lobbyists rarely couple a donation openly with a requested favor; the money is expected to speak for itself. Yet even this contention by Nixon was challenged last week by attorneys for Ralph Nader, who is suing the Administration for basing the support hike on political grounds. The attorneys filed a brief in a Washington federal court quoting from a subpoenaed tape of Nixon's March 23 meeting, contending that it showed that the President may have been obliquely acknowledging the donation when he told the milkmen: "I must...
Breaking Point. The powerful Trades Union Congress last week offered to make assurances that if a "special case" settlement were worked out with the miners, other unions would not use it to hike their own demands. Reversing a previous rejection, Heath met with the union leaders for two hours. "Our proposal was received with interest," reported the T.U.C.'s Sir Sidney Greene. But aides said that Heath was doubtful the unions could be kept in line, making such an agreement unlikely...
...publicly relenting on the production front, they seem to be bidding for Western gratitude-and for the acceptance of an additional, even more astronomical, 130% price hike that was announced just before Christmas. And this is being done when evidence is mounting that at least some of the production cuts allegedly being restored existed only on paper...
Motors and Chrysler announced price increases that will add $133 or more to the average retail price of 1974 cars. The biggest percentage increases will fall on hot-selling compact and subcompact models, though Ford's Mustang II compact is slated for no hike...