Word: hiked
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...fall, I wanted Dave Hanselman to have a chance to run the council and [I did not want] to get in the way," Liston says. "Still, I was proud to step up when I thought it was absolutely necessary like in the debate over the term bill hike and the ROTC compromise...
Liston, who supported a term-bill fee hike of $10, allegedly tried to rig the referendum. But Liston's version of his actions in support of the hike are more spirited than sinister...
...tried to get council members excited about going out and talking to people about the term bill hike," he says. "I even dressed up in my roommate's gorilla suit to try and get people excited...
...hike passed, despite widespread student opposition. But this fall, Liston says, he realized the raising of the fee was a mistake and worked to rectify...
...financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican Congress to stave off a hike in the minimum wage, resist health-insurance mandates and block any ideas to shift taxes from income to consumption. Controversial as they are, Gingrich's outside enterprises are probably as important to him as being Speaker. In some ways, they are what made him Speaker. GOPAC was a major force...