Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percent rise will be the College's lowest percentage hike in costs since 1979, when they went up by 8.5 percent in the last three years undergraduate costs have risen by successive percentages of 12 7, 15 0, and 14.8, contributing to an overall doubling of tuition over seven years...
...chunk of the saving would be provided by the payroll-tax hike and delay in benefit increases recommended last week by the Social Security commission. The rest would come from an $8 billion reduction in planned military spending already announced by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, skipping of a pay increase for federal employees, a delay in cost of living increases for federal civilian and military as well as Social Security pensioners, and further reductions in such social programs as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Overall, the aim is to freeze most nondefense spending at fiscal 1983 levels in dollar...
...Governor's budget proposals to be announced this week were expected to avoid any tax hike and to close the deficit partly by borrowing $700 million from next year's budget-a delaying tactic that the Democratic-controlled legislature seems likely to reject. If there are to be new taxes, Deukmejian seems determined to force the Democrats to propose them...
Although developing countries borrowed prudently to maintain growth in the face of higher energy costs after the 1973 oil shock, they were beginning to slide into deep debt by the time the second major oil-price hike came in 1978-79. Now they find themselves pinned down by a combination of events, each of which, by itself, would be troublesome enough: a lingering world recession; high interest rates; slumping exports and generally flat trade; increasing protectionism in the industrialized countries; and low commodity prices. Interest payments fall due, and national treasuries must strain to the limits to pay. Everywhere...
...when 12 million people are out of work. Said Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "It's the cherry on top of the pie to end up with a continuing resolution that has no money for jobs but a pay increase for Congress." The Senators sanctimoniously eschewed a salary hike (and thus will earn less than House members), but they opened the way for a flood of "honorariums" from special-interest groups by forbidding any limit on outside income for Senators. A $9,100 limit on outside earnings was due to go into effect next year and would have stopped...