Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis proposed $139 million in EEO funding. His $12.9 billion budget has been brushed aside by the House because it relies on a massive tax hike...
With the initiation last week of the first of the new measures -- an increase in the price of gasoline to a still indulgent 25 cents, plus an average 30% hike in bus fares -- Venezuelans went wild. In Caracas and the provinces, unruly mobs torched cars and buses. They quickly turned to looting stores, stealing everything from legs of beef to stereo components. Angry merchants defended their shops with gunfire in an orgy of crime and spontaneous punishment...
Some of them have managed to hike up rents so much in their rent-controlled buildings that poor and even moderateincome tenants have been forced to leave, and one is a fixture at evictions at the Rent Control Board. Some are slum landlords with extremely poor tenants, who let buildings run down, and do not even fix leaking roofs...
...House budget was crafted in reaction to the $12.9 million spending package submitted in January by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. The governor's plan is linked to a controversial $604 million tax hike on capital gains, alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline...
...Harvard strives to contain the rate of increase in tuition and fees while maintaining the quality of its undergraduate education and the physical condition of its facilities."--Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, at the announcement of a 6.5 percent tuition hike for next year...