Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With comparably severe measures on the economic front, the Generals have managed to cut this year's hyperinflation of 150% almost in half. Within days of the coup, the Generals moved to quiet disgruntled workers with a flat 70% wage hike-and no more. Strikes, which had cost Turkey 8 million man-hour days in the first nine months of 1980, were outlawed. As a result of economic housecleaning, such foreign lenders and investors as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund have been encouraged to continue extending desperately needed credit...
Melissa D. Gerrity, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said this week that despite efforts to work around inflation and tighten the budgetary belt, the University still needs to enlarge its income stream with a tuition hike...
...King thinks a fare increase is going to eliminate the deficit, he will have to raise fares to three or four dollars per ride," Thomas Ziola, the board's budget analyst, said yesterday. King justified the fare hike by saying, "I believe in the users paying... What the user does not pay is paid by the taxpayer...
...hike in the Massachusetts drinking age and earlier game time changes many business' approach to this weekend. Two years ago The Bow and Arrow Pub had a 25 per cent increase in business during the Harvard-Yale weekend, Pete Penslerak, the pub's bartender said, adding that the increased drinking age will make this weekend less profitable...
Other handouts are not so blatant, but they give a clear notion of what Rudman draws on for support. One taxation handout states in boldface that Durkin voted TO KILL a cut in the social security payroll tax hike, TO KILL a $30 billion tax cut, TO KILL a $7.3 billion tax cut, and TO KILL a 10-per-cent individual tax cut. "This message is brought to you by Defeat Durkin because you should have the facts when you select your next U.S. Senator," voters are informed; on a coupon, the leaflet adds, "I agree that John Durkin...