Word: hiked
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Maybe plumbing, not biology, is destiny. More than 70 years after women won the vote, the U.S. Senate chamber still has no women's bathroom. Even the Democratic cloakroom in the House has no ladies' room, leaving female Representatives with a hike to the Congressional Women's Reading Room, where there are all of three toilets. Future archaeologists, studying the pipes and bathroom fixtures of Capitol Hill, may conclude that late-20th century America was a fortress of patriarchy on a par with Saudi Arabia...
...with the new plant, MIT will draw only 25 percent of its current level of electricity from Cambridge Electric. City Councillor Sheila T. Russell said the utility company's losses could mean a price hike for its customers, which include Harvard University...
More important than its assistance to public health efforts would be the proposal's effect on discouraging young people from taking up smoking. Supporters of the initiative estimate that a 25-cent hike in cigarette prices would result in 80,000 people quitting or deciding not to experiment with this deadly addiction...
...other departures from four years ago: rather than concentrating on expensive network buys, the Clinton camp is placing ads on a state-by-state basis, with special emphasis on key battlegrounds like Michigan and Connecticut. And response time has been significantly shortened: Clinton's reply to Bush's tax-hike ad was on the air in 48 hours. "That kind of quick-response advertising has been going on in the Senate and gubernatorial races for more than a decade," says Mandy Grunwald, who heads the Clinton media team. "It's amazing to me that it has never been done...
...from $132 billion in cuts he's already outlined. Three problems. First, Congress has already rejected these cuts. Second, the cuts include making Medicare recipients and veterans pay more for certain services. This is a truly bad idea when upper-income taxpayers are so clearly due a modest tax hike after years of Reagan-Bush. (And it exposes Bush as a liar since he's said time and again to veterans groups that he won't touch their benefits...