Word: hikes
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There is a place for local administration for social programs, the inadequacy of many Great Society measures of the 1960s stemmed in part from their failure to allow for local implementation. But given the inability and unwillingness of many states to hike taxes to pay for support services. federal subsidies are necessary to avoid inequities between states and in adequate social aid in most. The aid disparities among states that the President's peculiar brand of federalism would promote would only entice the nation's needy to congregate where welfare benefits are highest. And his decentralization of environmental Regulations would...
University of Pennsylvania officials projected a 15-per-cent increase; Princeton officials have set a 14.7-per-cent hike; and Yale administrators expect about a 13-per-cent rise...
...laid off, Teamsters President Roy Williams has said that his demands would be "reasonable." The union won a $1.50-per-hr. pay increase in its last contract on top of cost of living allowances, pushing hourly wages to an average $12.80. But it is not asking for any additional hike this year...
...strategic bombers with air-to-ground missiles and studying a new, possibly mobile system for protecting its 18 land-based intermediate-range missiles. He also reversed a campaign pledge to reduce compulsory military service from twelve to six months. Last month Defense Minister Charles Hernu, 58, announced a 17.6% hike in the defense budget, to $22 billion. Discounted for inflation, the increase amounts to 3.6%, higher than that of any NATO member other than...
...need to hike salaries as fast as the rate of inflation while not raising tuition more than inflation has put the Faculty in a touchy financial situation...