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...least as much to the prices paid by consumers. Nixon has denied that the decision to raise supports was in any way influenced by the milk producers' contributions to his campaign; indeed, many Democratic Congressmen from dairy states favored the increase. But the relationship between the price hike and the promised contribution is one of the subjects being probed by the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry...
...what effect is unclear: Umberto has stated that the contract makes it impossible for Fiat to operate at a profit. The award will raise labor costs 11.5%, on top of a 17% hike last year. Meanwhile, government regulations have clamped a lid on the prices that Fiat can charge, and its auto sales are down by as much as 45% because of apprehension over the energy situation. Even before the award, the company had slipped about $30 million into the red last year, its first loss in recent history...
...past three years Matsushita has been forced to hike U.S. prices on its Panasonic products as much as 15% because of increases in the value of the Japanese yen on world money markets...
Corcoran said he made no political deals with the coalition over his retirement and the pension hike. "There have been absolutely no political deals or bribes whatsoever," he said...
Exchanges of charges, denials, innuendos and threats erupted this week after the city council on Monday approved a salary hike and a pension raise for retiring manager John H. Corcoran...