Those hefty hikes have in turn caused a sharp increase in the number of people leaving Westchester to buy homes in Putnam, Rockland and other neighboring counties, he said.
Both Sarkozy, who chairs the Union for a Popular Movement, and his socialist rival Ségolène Royal had made research into campaign themes, and both had promised hefty hikes in science and higher education budgets.
The China Iron and Steel Association is worried about hefty hikes in ore prices, as well as shipping rates, at a time when soaring demand in China has already put intense upward pressure on prices.
The headline figure disguises much heftier hikes on some routes, several of which will see double-digit mark-ups.Fiscal austerity is not solely to blame, even if, like most of the rest of Whitehall, the Department for Transport which supports and supervises both the train-operating firms and Network Rail, the company that runs and maintains the tracks must soon find big spending cuts.
Apparently, people leave the tickets to commemorate the couple's support of the French Maoists, who once gave Metro tickets away after a hefty price hike rendered them unaffordable to many ordinary workers.
Fetchit reluctantly agrees, but insists on a hefty salary hike, a hired car and various other symbols of his importance to the studio; fully aware of the ignoble nature of the roles he's forced to play, he can only assert his authority — and assuage his wounded pride — by insisting on ostentatious displays of his commercial success.
The bad news is that job creation, as widely feared, slowed as 2013 began and some hefty tax hikes took effect.
If a private company took over, only the state's public utility board, which has limited power, could intercede to mitigate hefty rate hikes.
On Friday, E.I. DuPont de Nemours reported flourishing sales within its North American agricultural seed business, which came on the back of hefty price hikes.
