Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hike to the TV room lessens the likelihoodthat students will be distracted by cable. It alsohas the added advantage of being paid for by Housefees rather than directly out of students'pockets...
Convincing the commission that the hike in fares was needed, however, was not an easy task, according to one cab driver who wished to remain anonymous...
MassHealth opened its arms and welcomed anadditional 106,000 people, bringing the total toalmost 800,000. Some revenue from the recent 25cent cigarette tax hike will fund MassHealth's$3.4 billion budget, which is bank rolled byfederal and state money...
...McCain knows he's writing a bill that's unacceptable to the industry," says TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. "It's a tactical move. The only haggling is between the hard-liners and the really hard-liners." The industry has already balked at one agreed-upon provision, a hike in the federal tax on cigarettes of $1.10 a pack by 2003, and as McCain and Co. hammer out provisions on liability protection, they do so knowing that the industry's demands are for far more...
...bookstore, in reselling merchandise to universities, must give discounts that in turn hike up the prices that other customers must pay, Leyenson says...