Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...COFFEE IS BREWED, AND parishioners gather in the meeting hall of the Epworth United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. On the wall a hand-scrawled poster exhorts: CASINO LOBBYISTS TAKE A HIKE! The tables are strewn with literature on gambling addiction. The T shirts on sale sport the logo NO CASINO and a fiercely clawed Maryland blue crab. As for the evening's featured speaker, "We call him Riverboat Rambo," says Barbara Knickelbein, a grandmotherly church activist, with a mixture of affection and reverence...
While paging through some old Crimsons, I came across an article in October of 1976. The headline: "CUE Hears Plan to Curb Grade Hike...
...balance the budget in seven years? "Yes...but only by cutting X; cutting X + 2 percent is evil and amoral." Mr. Clinton, after your call for the end of the "era of big government," may we assume that you now agree that your 1993 budget with its massive tax hike was a poor idea? "Yes...but it wasn't all bad." In short, Clinton's strategy for the election year seems to be to draw the line where there isn't a grain of sand left to be found...
...million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen, of the eponymous retail drugstore chain, took a compensation hike of 82%, to $4 million, while the company stock climbed 37% for the year. On Wall Street, where the M&A frenzy made for a historic $458 billion worth of deals--up from the previous high of $347 billion just 12 months earlier--compensation experts are calculating that several CEOs...
...DEVIL MADE ME DO IT: Clinton told a $1,000-a-plate crowd that he raised their taxes too much, in part blaming congressional Democrats for a 1993 tax hike that he twisted their arms...