Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying a tray of drinks in one hand, give a thin gloss of glamour to a job that is a grueling eight-hour hike in high heels. But, says Goddess Bonnie Arrage, "I'm one of nine sisters, born in Kentucky. I was working as a secretary in Michigan, and I got laid off. I decided I wanted to go where there was money left in the world. For someone like me, with only...
...keep the program solvent stated that no COLA should be made if inflation is 2.9% or lower. Reagan lavishly praised the compromise package last year-and cavalierly broke its spirit last month. Since the COLA could cost up to $5 billion and will require a small payroll-tax hike, the proposal also violates Reagan's pledges to cut costs and avoid tax increases...
...passerby. Every day (except Thursday afternoon and Sunday) is the same when they train together, as they did for five weeks this spring at Lake Placid: up at 6:45 for a two-mile run, breakfast, an hour and a half on the water, lunch, rest, a speed hike or a weight-lifting session, an additional hour of paddling, and dinner. "We've all grown really close," says Conover of the team, and that should help with the four-person competition, new to the Olympics this year. But singles and doubles races remain the traditional events, and the four...
...withholding of taxes on savings-account interest and stock dividends. She voted against many of Reagan's spending cuts in social programs. This year she supported a black caucus budget proposal calling for a $203 billion slash in military spending over three years coupled with a $99 billion hike in social spending. Although she explained that she considered the military cuts excessive, she supported the package because of her interest in restoring funds for programs helping the poor, the elderly and children...
...some customers, though, there is no consolation at all. In Indiana, a task force set up by Governor Robert Orr is recommending a 3% rate hike in each of the next five years to pay for the $2.8 billion spent for the abandoned plants in Marble Hill. That means 540,000 customers in 69 counties would be paying for plants that never produced a single kilowatt of power. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Detroit and Thomas McCarroll/New York