Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salary increase for Zeckhauser, Rosen said that last year's hike "appears to be abnormally high because it includes bonuses" that we paid in the current calendar year and reported in the 1981 fiscal year...
...Turner scores Harvard's final goal of the night at 8:17 of the third period, and now Eliot suffers the Harvard fans wrath, as tennis balls, beer cans and, that's right, a sieve pelt the Big Red net. The Cornell netminder takes a hike out of the crease, and, since they had been forewarned, the Harvard fans take a trip to the penalty box. The minutes for "roughing", you might say. In any case, the scoreboard shows a two minute penalty on Harvard's number zero, and Crimson defenseman Scott Sangster sits out the penalty, as the referee...
...last Wednesday morning, the handsome, gray-haired Hollings rose on the Senate floor and addressed a nearly empty chamber. Baker, however, was pointedly in attendance. Hollings proposed deferring Reagan's hike in defense spending, thereby saving $19 billion in 1983, and eliminating cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other entitlement programs next year, saving another $24 billion. He also suggested saving $5 billion by scrapping a proposed 5% pay boost scheduled for this October for Federal Government workers. To raise more money, Hollings recommended canceling the 10% cut in personal income taxes due this July and slicing...
Instead, the economists generally favored tax increases that would discourage consumption rather than investment. One possibility that had support from the board would be coupling decontrol of natural gas prices with a tax on the windfall profits the industry would reap. The price hike would cut consumption of an important fuel, and the tax could net the Treasury perhaps $20 billion in 1983. Greenspan suggested that Congress might look seriously at the Value Added Tax (VAT), a kind of national sales tax that is used by most Western European countries...
...appears from the dressing area sporting some loose-limbed Kenzo tunic or, perhaps, a Calvin Klein dress that might, with the single addition of a center support pole, provide all-weather protection on an overnight hike...