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CTOC has been organizing tenants against the 10 to 20 per cent increase since it was voted by the board December 30, she said. Notifications of the hike were mailed to tenants last month, she said, delaying the planned implementation of the increase for two months...
...Msalme a representative of Princeton's ad hoc Committee Against Tuition Increase, said yesterday that although scholarship at Princeton would be increased proportionately to the $625 tuition hike, students also will be expected to earn more through summer and term jobs. He said he felt those would place on unfair burden on lower income students...
...cutbacks would reduce the amount of financial and given by the university and the number of non-tenured faculty, and would accompany a tuition hike...
...become even more bitter. Nicaragua's chronic crisis has been exacerbated by rising food costs, seen by the people as an indication that Somoza is speculating in prices (certainly the shift in rural production from foodstuffs to the more profitable export crop of cotton has contributed to the hike, and Nicaragua's food prices are clearly higher than those in neighboring Central American countries.) Additionally, the housing shortage in Managua remains acute, and a two-month strike of construction workers has halted all rebuilding save that which takes place protected by armed guards. The construction workers, who are appreciably better...
...highly imaginative: one of their December 27 demands was that the government give a pay raise to the lower ranks of the National Guard, and obvious efforts to separate the soldiers from the officers. And two weeks later, doubtless embarrassed by the demand. Somoza did grant a partial pay hike, although he claimed it had been scheduled all along...