Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because New England Telephone, which provides HUN with area service, is raising its rates for local calls, HUN is passing on the price hike to its customers...
Anderson said that HUN is subject to the whims of New England Telephone when it comes to local charges, and said the new system had nothing to do with the hike. In fact, representatives from the Office of Information Technology say Harvard students are still receiving cheaper service tahnks to the new system...
...rate hike, the first in four years, will probably not be passed on to consumers, say Cambridge retailers...
...budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike and a new capital gains top rate of 28%. Speaker Thomas Foley followed up later with a call to the President, who accepted the plan. As both conservative Southern Democrats and House liberals began signaling their approval, Foley was confident that the new plan would not meet the fate...
Republican lawmakers were not so easy to deliver. Many were furious that the President was forcing them to defend an unpopular tax hike with the midterm election only two weeks away. Some suspected Bush of going along with higher taxes to head off an even worse deficit that could endanger his own re- election...