Word: hikes
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...unreasonable to expect such cost-cutting while carrying a deficit. However, we do find Nye’s suggestions of a tuition hike as one possible way to address cutting costs rather troubling. Now that the economy has officially slipped into a recession, higher tuition would represent an even harsher financial blow to the many students already paying exorbitant fees...
...maintained a deliberate distance ever since the end of World War II. They aren't jet-setting royals who play on the beaches of the Riviera or date dashing polo players. They don't have brushes with the law or tattle on one another in the tabloids. They hike in the mountains, ice-skate, pray at temples and cut ribbons at children's hospitals. Naruhito seems like a nice, serious guy, but he doesn't exactly set young girls' hearts aswooning. There was hope that Masako would rattle the gilded cages, but she has faded into royal anonymity. These...
...Maybe some Americans really are responding to the call to shop for victory: October retail sales figures released earlier this month showed an extraordinary 7% jump over grim September. But most of the spending hike is accounted for by auto sales, which were inflated by those 0% financing deals offered by manufacturers desperate to clear their inventories...
...deficit accounts for 3 percent of the KSG’s operating costs, Nye revealed in a “State of the School” address at the ARCO Forum last night, and Nye warned that a tuition hike and cost-cutting measures will be instituted in order to balance the budget...
...fallen on a year-to-year basis in 34 years. In what passes for optimism this year, the National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will rise 2.5 to 3 percent, which sounds pretty good until you consider that last year's dismal sales season was a 3.9 percent hike over the previous year's, and anything under 3 percent for 2001 would be the worst showing since...