Word: hikes
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...budget needs more revenue, you could always add 50 cents to the subway/bus fare, or hike the tax on parking garages - some New Yorkers will pay anything for a luxury. And something might be done with the tolls. But that's for the bean counters. Banning parking would rev all the economic engines that the city runs on, and eliminate the real source of economic dead weight, namely private-vehicle owners who are just waiting for an excuse to get out of town for the weekend anyway...
...Durable goods orders - a handy indicator not only for consumers? long-term confidence but also for the capital-spending mindset of manufacturers - fell 4.8 percent overall in November. But that's but a small piece of October's 12.5 percent hike, and when you take out declining defense orders (the war is slowing down a bit) domestic-front orders of heavy equipment, appliances, and the like were up 2.7 percent. And even the manufacturing-gauging Chicago Purchasing Managers Index edged up a smidge to 41.4 from 41.1. That's two straight months of rising PMI and non-defense durables orders...
...implemented, the recommendations will result in a significant pay hike for both directly employed and subcontracted employees...
This scheme will only hurt the University in the long run. The fee hike that will take effect in January will only make HSTO less competitive with the falling prices of the cellular phone industry. Even those who harbor the most stalwart opposition to cell phones (like me) will balk at the growing prices that HSTO offers and opt for the cell phone instead. As more students take this alternative, a vicious cycle will ensue. Fewer students will use HSTO for long distance service, lowering its revenue. In order to break even, HSTO will have to raise the rates, causing...
...Wall Street they call it "looking across the valley." Everybody knows we're in a recession, everybody knows we're at the bottom, or near it, or maybe even just past it. What nobody knows is how much longer the hike is, and what's the lay of the land on the other side. See, most Wall Street coinage of this sort - remember "visibility," the summer's hot term? - is a euphemism meant to make you sound like a squinty-eyed explorer, gazing at distant horizons only you can see, when really you're not even sure where...