Word: hikes
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...from 17 cents to $1.07 per gal., which may add 50 cents to the retail price of a standard (750- ml) bottle of wine. Pessimists in the industry predict that the increase could reduce wine consumption by 12% and lead to the loss of 7,000 jobs. The tax hike comes at a time when many growers are also worried about phylloxera, a mite-size plant louse that is gnawing away at vines, primarily in Napa and Sonoma counties. An estimated 250 acres have been affected so far, and replanting with new phylloxera-resistant vines may cost upwards...
...included Kit Carson and, more recently, eagle scout and FBI Director William Sessions, who brought along pistol-packing bodyguards. In recent years women have become active in the formerly all-male backcountry. Two of 501's adult leaders are female, as are 20 of Philmont's 185 rangers who hike for two days with each group to help launch the trip successfully. Environmental pressures are being felt as well. While scouting enjoys a proud heritage of eco-awareness, Philmont was stunned to discover last year that its landfill violated New Mexico's updated waste-management laws. As a result, camping...
...Jedediah Ezekial Springfield (eagle scout Trey Berlin, 21, of Richmond, Ky.) offer to teach gold panning and to provide tours of the abandoned mine shaft; they speak in twangy "interpretive accents." After dinner, the miners put on a "stomp" with guitar music and surprisingly pungent jokes. Another day's hike leads to a cattle ranch set in a lush green valley. At that campfire, a talented cowboy-guitarist nicknamed Fluffy performs the Oreo Cookie Blues, which he describes as a "song of addiction." Next morning the scouts heat irons to mark their hiking boots and hats with Philmont's brand...
...determine how to pay for unification. Current projections call for an expenditure of roughly $55 billion annually for the next four years for building infrastructure and providing social support in the eastern part of the country. In the months leading up to the election, Kohl resisted a tax hike, preferring instead to rely on spending cuts, the sale of public assets in western and eastern Germany, and large-scale borrowing. Few expect that the government will be able to follow this tack much longer; loading too great a burden on taxpayers, however, risks feeding internal west-east resentments that could...
...made the present imbalance inevitable. The Vietnam-era draft was full of inequities that allowed middle- class youths to duck into college and professional deferments. But once conscription ended, the proportion of soldiers from more educated and affluent backgrounds dwindled even further. Though Congress approved a military pay hike of more than 60% in 1972, most people with college degrees could find better jobs in civilian life. By the late 1970s, as military pay scales began , to lag further behind those in the outside world, even high school graduates were in no hurry to sign up. They accounted for just...