Word: hikes
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...College, a prestigious liberal-arts school in Massachusetts, announced last month that for the first time in 46 years, its tuition would remain steady at $31,520. Last week students at Princeton University learned that their annual $31,599 tuition, room and board will rise just 3.3%--the smallest hike in 30 years...
...host of Great Society-esque initiatives, including generous spending on education and health benefits for the poor. "Election years are the best time for a president to get his agenda passed," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Some of Clinton's most crucial achievements - the minimum wage hike and the balanced budget - came in 1996. This year the Republicans have two problems: First, they've got this popular president with an ambitious agenda, and they don't want to be a do-nothing Congress; second, a lot of his issues, such as the Patient's Bill of Rights...
...nothing is ever as simple as "too many people are using the present laws to stiff MasterCard - let's be fair and do something about it." Instead, the final bill was chock-full of politically charged amendments, the most notable of which were a Democrat-sponsored $1 minimum wage hike over three years and a provision to prevent abortion clinic protesters from hiding behind bankruptcy filings after losing civil suits. An attempt by the Democrats to strip gun manufacturers of bankruptcy protection failed...
Shachter's proposal, similarly to the condo-conversion ordinance currently in effect in Boston, includes a list of factors that are early indicators that a landlord is thinking of converting a property into condominiums. One such factor is a hike in rent of more than 10 percent...
With an eye on keeping the blistering economy as stable as possible, Greenspan et al. meet this week to discuss another rate hike. Analysts predict another incremental raise, to 5.75 percent. Let's hope it works, otherwise there'll be plenty of gadgets stuffed in people's closets, and precious little safely nesting in the bank...