Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stage to his liking: they're worrying about impeachment, he has been saying, and we're worrying about keeping guns out of schoolyards. While House managers tried to pin him in the Senate well, Clinton spent the week preserving wide-open spaces, proposing a 55[cents]-a-pack hike in the federal cigarette tax and helping disabled Americans keep their health insurance. However hard it is for him to give the speech, it may be harder for Congress to hear it. If all goes his way, the Senate will wake up on Wednesday wondering whose idea this trial was anyway...
Rising FICA burden. Beginning this year, you will pay Social Security tax on the first $72,600 you earn--up from the $68,400 threshold in 1998. That's a 6.1% hike, a rate that is roughly double the pay increase most wage earners will see. For anyone whose income exceeds that higher level, it means an extra $260.40 a year owed to the feds. Tip: earnings stashed in a flexible-spending account at work are exempt from FICA withholding. In a two-earner household, it may pay for the lower earner to fund the account...
...ferocious class war erupted in Vermont over (a) construction of low-cost housing (b) equalization of public school funding (c) layoffs at maple-syrup factories (d) a hike in mass-transit fares...
...closer one gets to Cambridge, the harder it is to escape bagel chains and venues of cashmere sweater sets. Stereo Jacks is a slight hike down Mass Ave from Porter, but the CD, record and tape collection is a refreshing change from the hum-drum top-40 adult contemporary hits of Tower records and even the ultra-trendy underground of In Your Ear. Jack Woker, the proud founder of this establishment, has been providing eccentric music-listeners with old favorites like "Fabulous Harmonica played by the Yama Yama Man" and "Serenades for Sex Kittens." In particular, the shop specializes...
...working as a camp counselor last summer and one day I got soaking wet leading some campers back from a hike in a storm. But when I went back to the cabin to take off my went clothes, I remembered that I was late making a phone call. So I threw a long raincoat over my purple bra and panties and ran to the pay phones. As I raced to the camp headquarters in the rain, I saw this really fine counselor coming by with some of his campers and I stopped paying attention to the trail and tripped! When...