Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy spent much of the summer in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills. He has a good friend there named Bill Walsh, a onetime Roman Catholic priest and part owner of a hotel in Deadwood. The two of them would run several miles a day, go swimming and hike through the hills. Walsh claimed last week that his friend was heading to Rapid City to seek his aid in kicking the habit when he overdosed on the plane. Said Walsh: "Bobby made the commitment to straighten himself out before his crash landing...
...drive to slash spending or raise taxes. Predictably, the House voted last week to authorize an additional $1.6 billion for ten education and health programs in an effort to reverse some spending cuts made early in the Reagan Administration. House Speaker Tip O'Neill declared that any tax-hike initiative would have to come from the President or the Republican Party...
...Ohio, Celeste made permanent a temporary 50% personal income tax hike passed by former Republican Governor James Rhodes and, on top of that, steered through a 40% increase. Blanchard last spring engineered a 38% Increase in personal income tax, with provisions for a partial rollback...
...Electrical Workers and the far smaller Telecommunications International Union, won a modest first-year maximum 5.5% wage increase vs. the 2.7% offered originally by American Telephone & Telegraph. That would mean $26.13 a week for the highest-paid, most experienced workers. With cost of living increases plus another 1.5% wage hike during the contract's second and third years, the union calculates that workers would get total pay raises of 16.4%. Formal ratification by the workers is expected in early October...
...federal funding for summer jobs has remained at virtually the same level since the last year of the Carter Administration, the total number of jobs created has fallen from 822,700 in fiscal 1979 to 683,000 in 1982. Two major culprits: high inflation during those years and a hike in the minimum wage from $2.90 in 1979 to $3.35 two years later. To help counter such factors, the Administration plans to spend $819.5 million for 813,000 jobs, 140,000 more positions than last year...