Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposed by Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King last spring limited municipal spending increases to 4 per cent. Taxes did not rise in Cambridge last year...
...steep rise follows an unexpectedly sharp decline earlier this year. Then, the major oil companies and the nation's 12,000 independent smaller operators, who account for about 80% of all drilling, were putting off new exploration. Major reason: uncertainty over the decontrol of oil prices and new natural gas pricing regulations. The turning point came in June when crude began to be decontrolled. Oil from wells "newly discovered" after Jan. 1, 1979, began to sell at $28.81 per bbl. delivered to the refinery, rather than the artificially controlled price of $13.86. The additional oil from older wells produced...
...exploration began to rise at about the same time, as producers finally started to figure out where they stood with the complicated Natural Gas Policy Act, passed in October 1978. It created whole new categories for natural gas and raised ceiling prices on some of them. The category of each well had to be determined by federal and state inspectors, and there were long delays as gasmen waited to find out what prices they could charge. The average price that interstate pipeline companies paid rose to $1.20 per 1,000 cu. ft. in August, from 91? ten months earlier...
...catch is that MIC policyholders will be charged higher deductibles on claims-$500 on the majority of crashes instead of the standard $200. Rates for the accident-prone rise steeply. But that is the whole idea: to shift more of the financial burden to those responsible for wrecks. Adults and adolescents alike will have an even stronger incentive to slow down and stay sober...
...reapportion library funding from towns and cities to the Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A U.S. Senate proposal to study such a shift has been sponsored by New York Senator Jacob Javits. Like many another U.S. child of immigrant parents, Javits traces his rise from poverty to the hours he spent after school-working away in the neighborhood public library on the Lower East Side...