Word: hiked
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PHIL KNIGHT Nike CEO will end child labor and improve factories abroad. Go, Phil--now hike that minimum wage...
...which will be the subject of contentious debate in the Senate this week. Despite demands from leading Senate Democrats--and some Republicans--that the price of a pack of cigarettes be raised by $1.50 over five years, the Administration agreed to support McCain's more modest $1.10-a-pack hike. In return, the Arizona Senator strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain and the White House acted to pacify convenience-store owners by restricting the FDA's ability to unilaterally ban the sale of cigarettes from a whole class...
...contrition tour promoting his book, Lessons Learned the Hard Way, and abruptly withdrew his support from the McCain effort, calling it "a big government, big bureaucracy" bill, language almost identical to the industry's. Had he suddenly bought into one of its most ludicrous arguments, that the price hike places an unfair burden on the poor, who smoke the most and, ironically, save the country money by dying early? Industry advocates contend that a smoker with a pack-a-day habit pays so much in cigarette tax and collects so much less in Social Security benefits that society ends...
...friend once told me, `If you're having fun outdoors, you're doing something wrong.' This is kind of the antithesis of what we're about," explains Myers. "If you don't want to hike, don't hike. The main point is to have a good time...
...meeting winds to an end, members slowlygather their belongings and prepare to leave. Afew stick around, chatting about the upcomingmoonlight hike along the New Hampshire shoreline.Theplan is to leave Friday night at 11 p.m. and,hopefully, to finish before sunrise...