Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American dairymen last September, the thing that he wanted most was "a glass of good, fresh milk." The assembly cheered lustily, and for good reason. Only six months before, the Administration had reversed a hold-the-line policy and raised the federal price support levels for dairy products. The hike came two days after the President had met with a delegation of dairymen...
...senior staff economist in 1970-71 and last October was named to the Price Commission. There she has proved a tough and highly capable overseer of Phase II prices; she argued strongly against allowing coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved by the Pay Board. Mrs. Whitman plans to move back to Washington with her husband, an English professor who will work on a research project, and their two children. Women's Lib disapproves of the professional use of a married name, but Mrs. Whitman...
Stephen R. , attorney for HSWOC, said yesterday that the negotiation for higher wages is not in conflict with the terms of the wage-price freeze if the wage hike does not go into effect us after the freeze has ceased...
...approach of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's Jan. 15 deadline for Britain to either pay more money or give up its bases on Malta, the negotiations took on some of the overtones of an international poker game. Mintoff kept insisting that Britain pay a $33.8 million rent hike over last year's $13 million. The British, holding the line at a proposed $11.7 million increase, evacuated 6,000 military dependents and began moving R.A.F. planes and personnel to bases on Sicily and Cyprus...
...permission to pass along to car buyers the cost of new anti-pollution and safety equipment required under federal law. The ticket price of an average General Motors car will go up about $40; other automakers will probably post similar increases. For GM, the industry price leader, the combined hike of 3.4% is about $20 below that planned shortly before the freeze. Thus customers came out ahead under the controls-but not by much...