Word: increment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that USDA figures may not include all wages from piece rates, but, given the realities of agricultural production, it is inconceivable that piece rates would substantially increase the income of a significant number of farmworkers. First, there are only a few instances where piece rates are paid as an increment to a base hourly wage, and piece rates alone generally produce low earnings. (Testimony before the 1969 Senate Sub-committee on Migratory Labor indicated that only 10-25 per cent of all farmworkers worked on a piece rate basis and that, at a maximum, a worker might earn...
...rise marks a $200 increase in tuition and a $125 increment in room and board fees...
...from 8? to a dime, an increase of 25%. Most Americans will feel that bite of inflation at once, but another may go unnoticed at first. On the same day, a new jump in second-class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means that periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 242% more...
Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of Summer School, said yesterday that he was quite pleased with the increment of student interest in light of a nationwide trend through the 1970s in reduced summer school attendance...
...leaders continue to reduce businessmen, and the people as right on bargaining with the peddlers. Only the increment of prosperity is new the tradition of sacrifice for an envisioned better day and fear of a worse one is ancient. In the Republic of China, a generation grows...