Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear Key West will lose the fragile character that has made it a mecca for both the offbeat and affluent. Already, the growth has strained the island's police, fire, street and sanitation services, and caused a low-and middle-income housing crisis, accompanied by a large tax hike, that has forced many workers off the island. Last year there were frequent power shortages and sewer-pipe breaks. How well the island weathers the impending storm will depend on whether it can grow while preserving its unique and eccentric flavor, and whether it can maintain its tenuous balance between...
Hundreds of Boston-area students have been lobbying this week for a hike of only one year in the drinking age. Some of their organizers blame the House vote on Tuesday to raise the drinking age gradually to 21 in part on the students' lower turnout that day than on Monday. About 700 young people lobbied in the Senate Thursday...
Although students have been lobbying all week to keep the drinking age at 19, few businesses have contacted legislators about the proposed drinking age hike. Rep. Richard T. Moore said this week only one restaurant in his district has urged him to keep the drinking...
...news brief released earlier this week MIT Chancellor Paul E. Gray said "increases in wage and salary costs, prices of services, energy, and materials essential to the operation of the Institute," caused the hike. As a non-profit organiza on facing a deficit, MIT is exempt from President Carter's suggested price increase ceilings...
Getting a deregulation bill through Congress may take three years. Prospects are brighter for a 1979 bill giving railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...