1.   Aside from nixing the idea of hiking taxes, voters also expressed opposition to the idea of growing fast.

2.   Gaming interests argue that by legalizing casinos, cash-strapped areas can generate higher revenues without hiking taxes.

3.   Here was a Democratic governor of a Republican state whose biggest claims to fame are cutting taxes, shaving welfare rolls and sustaining a budget surplus without hiking taxes.

4.   Voters who opposed hiking taxes to finance a major league baseball stadium rallied Tuesday to defeat a well-financed campaign to recruit a big-league team to North Carolina.

5.   Eliminating that day while hiking taxes, fees and other costs for households was too much for the unions.

6.   Premier Romano Prodi avoided unpopular measures such as hiking taxes on fuel, relying instead on a wide mix of deficit-cutting programs.

7.   French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday he had asked the government to stop hiking taxes and social security levies and to reduce them as soon as possible.