Word: hikes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decision to shore up Faculty salaries this summer by boosting wages faster than inflation put particular financial pressure on the Faculty budget. The salary hike has effectively nullified gains stemming from recent drops of several points in the rate of inflation and small drops in the rate of increase of the Faculty's energy costs...
...price hike is primarily due to inflation and specifically to an increase in the cost of paper, Daniel J. deLellis, book director of the Harvard Cooperative Society, said...
...future, more publishers may begin leaving suggested retail prices off textbook, allowing retailers to hike prices even more, deLellis said. (The Coop currently sells its texts at publisher's suggested prices, Argeros said...
...your article of October 1, on page 6, about the "Postal Rate Hike," you claim that a change from 6 cents to 20 cents represents a 333 per cent increase. While it is true that 333% x 6 is 20, the same reasoning would mean that a change of 6 cents to, say, a modest 8 cents would represent a 133 per cent increase! Such reasoning is obviously fallacious, as would have been plainly apparent given the briefest thought...
Richard G. Darman '64, an aide to President Reagan on leave from the Kennedy School of Government, received a promotion and a pay hike this week as part of a White House staff shake...