Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently gave the workers much more than they had expected. Britain's bobbies have just won a 16.5% wage hike -well above Heath's 10% limit. Now the nation's 230,000 railwaymen are pressing for a 15% to 25% increase, and London's 26,000 busmen are negotiating for a 25% rise in wages...
This is the first tuition hike in two years at the Divinity School...
...side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater was not overly fatiguing and that it was cut short 100 yds. or so from the crater's rim only because time was running out. But they still seemed to disagree on one point. Mitchell, who had wanted to continue the hike over Shepard's protestations, said the rolling, boulder-strewn terrain made it extremely difficult for them to keep their bearings. "You simply couldn't see more than 100 to 150 yards away and see landmarks," said Mitchell...
...room and board increase had been anticipated last month when it was announced that tuition would rise from $2600 to $2800 for 1970-71. The tuition hike was the third in three years...
...early hour for most Americans (5:50 a.m. E.S.T.), Shepard and Mitchell are scheduled to emerge for their second EVA and load up their new collapsible two-wheeled lunar handcart with cameras, hand tools, shovel and sampling cores. Then they will begin their major geological traverse: a rock-collecting hike up the side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater, nearly a mile away. Although the two lunar mountaineers will not descend into the crater itself, they will conduct a kind of rock festival on its rim: they will chip stone from large boulders and roll some smaller boulders down...