Posts Tagged ‘hikes’
Despite observers, Syria’s Assad hikes crackdown (AP)
AP – Bashar Assad’s regime would appear to be setting itself on a collision course: It let in outside observers for the first time Thursday to monitor his commitment to halting the crackdown on dissent, even as his security forces unleashed a fiercer onslaught this week, killing more than 200 in two days.
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Readers debate tuition hikes, presidential politics and the Mets
Manhattan: Re Your Dec. 5 editorial (“Fair deal at CUNY”) supporting the tuition hike at City University institutions: This is a fair deal. Kudos to former CUNY trustee Herman Badillo, Chairman Benno Schmidt and Chancellor Matthew Goldstein for their efforts at increasing standards at the CUNY colleges.
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Yemen president’s return hikes fear of escalation (AP)
AP – President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly returned home to Yemen on Friday after more than three months of being treated in Saudi Arabia for wounds from an assassination attempt, in a move apparently aimed to ensure his grip as his loyalists and opponents wage urban warfare in the capital.
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Obama defends tax hikes for wealthy: ‘This is not class warfare’
President Obama fired off a shot in what Republicans call “class warfare” Monday - proposing $1.5 trillion in tax hikes on millionaires to cut the nation’s rising deficit.
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Big price hikes on food, clothes set to wallop us
Fresh financial pain is on the way, with price hikes expected on everything from underwear to cereal.
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Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama Fri. (AP)
AP – A massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year’s Day tax hike for millions of Americans is on its way to President Barack Obama for his signature Friday.
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Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama (AP)
AP – A massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year’s Day tax hike for millions of Americans is on its way to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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