Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caspar Weinberger, the prospective Secretary of Defense, contended before the Senate Armed Services Committee that a "gap" existed in the U.S.-Soviet balance of nuclear weapons. He endorsed Reagan's plans to boost defense spending, but rejected proposals to hike the budget by a fixed percentage each year, as some conservative Senators have suggested...
...Cabinet crises, along with protests involving workers, students, doctors and even pharmacists. In Sweden, long a model of social consensus, unions and employers paralyzed the country last spring with nine days of work stoppages over wage claims that eventually forced the government to grant tax relief and companies to hike wages...
...rates. Only five years ago, $5,000 would have bought an option-packed Oldsmobile or Buick station wagon. Today, that amount is barely enough to pay for a stripped-down two-door Chevette. The same Buick wagon would cost nearly $11,000. The Big Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices up too far and too fast. Says Marvin Alpern, a New York City Chevrolet dealer: "People come in and look...
DiNatale said he does not foresee a hike in bus fares to raise additional revenues. "There's no plan under way to raise fares. But if fares were to be raised, they would probably be in buses," he said. He added that raising bus fares to 50 cents from 25 cents would annually generate $8 million to $10 million...
Philip N. Shapiro, a budget officer for the Advisory Board, said yesterday he does not know of a proposed bus fare hike, but that he heard rumors of such a like when the subway fare rose by 25 cents over the summer...