Word: hiked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than 17,000 jobs (26% of its total dressmaking labor force), most not because of automation but because companies have gone out of business, while new ones opened elsewhere. High labor costs have been one reason. Last month the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union won a 20% hike over the next three years for its 60,000 New York area members. A principal beneficiary of New York's decline has been Miami, where spacious plants rent for half the going cost of New York lofts, and nonunion Cuban immigrant labor is available at rates...
...first devaluation, quite a few foreign producers were so eager to keep their share of the rich U.S. market that they did not raise their American prices but instead reduced profit margins. Now they do not have much profit left to bite into, and they will have to hike prices. Similarly, some American exports that did not experience an increase in sales after one price reduction may do better after two. Demand for such U.S. exports as coal and farm products is sensitive to prices. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, forecasts on the basis...
...survivors-all men and all but one 26 years or younger-were rescued after two of them had struggled down the mountains in an epic ten-day hike. The pair encountered a stray shepherd, and four climbers of Chile's Andean Rescue Corps helicoptered in to bring out the remaining 14. Some survivors had lost as much as 60 lbs., and six required hospitalization for injuries; otherwise, they were in remarkably good condition despite having spent more than two months on a snow-drenched mountain. Only when the rescuers discovered that nine bodies near the wreck had been strangely...
...city workers union is seeking a 5.5 per cent pay hike, within the Federal Price Control guidelines, and more fringe benefits...
...ECONOMY. Nixon won many votes by his promise not to raise taxes in his second term, which he hedged later by placing the blame for any forthcoming hike on high spending by a Democratic Congress. Yet most economists see no way to avoid tax increases. If more government services are shifted to state and local governments, they too will be forced to raise taxes ,which would go against another Nixon campaign pitch, the pledge to try to relieve local property taxes. Trying to hold down the current federal budget under $250 billion, Nixon is expected to operate the national economy...