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...rent board regulations allow landlords to pass on higher costs in fuel prices and higher tax rates to the tenant and will result in a rent hike of about $18 a month for more than 70 per cent of Cambridge's tenants...
...imports be carried in U.S. vessels. He permitted?perhaps encouraged?vigorous antitrust action by his Justice Department, notably against AT&T. By taking blunt exception to a General Motors price hike, he forced a modest rollback. U.S. Steel, too, reconsidered a price increase when Ford grumbled...
...rent hike comes in three separate, concrete parts: landlords will be allowed to "pass through" to tenants all of a 21 per cent tax increase instituted last July; all increased fuel costs; and an additional 3.1 per cent to compensate for the cost of living increase between...
...employees' representative association--which is an in-house union, rather than an AFL-CIO affiliated one like the trades council--got a 7.6 per cent pay hike and 15 cents an hour extra for evening and night shift work in its new one-year contract...
...deterioration of Denmark's economy in the past year in large part has been caused by the fourfold hike in the price of imported oil (upon which 90% of the country's energy output depends). With its import prices rising twice as fast as its export prices, Denmark suffered a more than $ 1 billion balance of payments deficit in 1974. Unemployment, at a 22-year high, has cut deeply into some professions. "If you take the No. 6 bus on Thursdays," observes Architect JØrgen Andersen, 39, "it is full of architects on their...