"It's an increase that is going to feed into food prices".
Instead, there is hope that the government will underwrite any related debt increase that is taken on by Tube Lines.
At Cornell University, tuition will be $27,270, a 5percentt increase that is the largest in seven years.
"It is only fair that our members receive a pay increase that is at least in line with inflation.
This month, the authority unveiled four proposals for the fare increase that is scheduled to take effect in March.
Mayor Koch has already said that the city cannot afford the 7% increase that is within federal guidelines.
But even after you account for the fundamentals, there's a part of the increase that is hard to explain".
So isn't it, in effect, a guaranteed rate increase that is just collected in a lump sum?
Even after its capital increase, that is unlikely to rise by more than a few billion dollars.
In contrast, at the end of 1998, more than 30percentt of companies were unprofitable -- an increase that is difficult to interpret bullishly.
I don't think that either recent Conservative or Labour governments have focused on the scale of the increase that is coming down the track".
