Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought a 1977 Buick a few years back that gets 14 miles to the gallon. If it gives up the ghost next year and you replace it with a 1985 model that gets 18 m.p.g., that's a 28% increase in fuel efficiency. They could hike the price of gas 28%, and it wouldn't cost you a penny more to drive a mile...
...tiny little amendment. Where it says 4.3 cents, they should add two words: a year. And maybe a third word: forever. For decades, we'd still be paying vastly less for gas than our competitors (in Europe and Asia, gas goes for nearly $4 per gal.). For decades, the hike in the tax would be more or less canceled out by available improvements in fuel efficiency -- so it would cost no more to drive a mile...
...lives in an apartment 10 minutes away from the Yard and walks to work. He takes time off from both activism and scholarship to hike and listen to a 500-strong CD collection, which is heavy on the Romantic composers. He reads Wittgenstein and the occasional contemporary gay fiction. He cooks Indian food...
Tehran badly miscalculated its income from oil exports after the Gulf War, counting on an OPEC price hike that did not materialize. The oil industry has not regained its prewar export capacity, and its $16 billion a year in earnings helps prop up other failing state enterprises. The country is already $5 billion in arrears in its foreign-debt repayments, and is expected to be about $10 billion behind a year from...
...often too quick to blame health care professionals whenever the outcome of a medical procedure is less than perfect. This has forced physicians to allot up to 40 percent of their incomes to malpractice insurance. Once again, the health care dollar is divided; the patient incurs the resulting hike in doctor's fees...