Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said that the financial aid office is asking for a funding increase of $400,000 to $600,000. These funds would case the burden of the $200 hike...
...tuition hike at Harvard will probably be just one more rung on a never-ending ladder. Referring to 1972-73, Dunlop said yesterday, "If the costs continue to go up, we have no alternative but to raise the cost of tuition, also...
This $600 hike, from $2800 to $3400,is the sharpest tuition increase in the University's history...
...city's mood. Gdansk (pop. 370,000) had seethed for days with resentment at the Polish government's sudden announcement of a dramatic rise in food prices, the more infuriating since it came just before Christmas. Now, at the Lenin Shipyards, grumbling workers spontaneously protested the hike by refusing to work. Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed anything Eastern Europe has experienced in years and shook to its foundations the Communist regime of Party...
...keep bargaining until March 1 if necessary; at which point another strike can be called. The prime issue is money. The workers, who now average between $3.45 and $3.60 an hour, are demanding pay increases of between 40% and 45% over three years. The railroads have reluctantly offered to hike wages by an average of 37%, following the recommendation of a presidential emergency board. In return, the lines want an increase in productivity and an end to such wasteful featherbedding practices as changing train crews every 100 miles and paying crewmen extra money for operating a walkie-talkie. Many...