Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flat housing market would eventually crimp sales of building materials and home furnishings, from timber to toilets. The lumber industry is still shaking off the recession and is hardly prepared for a new shock. In the Northwest, the number of sawmills has declined by about 13% since 1979, and their work force has dropped by 20%, to 96,000. Says H.A. Roberts, executive vice president of the Western Wood Products Association: "We're more efficient these days, and sales volume is relatively good. But we're not nearly as healthy...
...work hard for. "People tend to think if you're poor, you're not supposed to have anything," Phase 2 says. "But when you see something you want, you'll hustle up the money, and not everybody hustles reefer to do it, either." Price may not crimp style, but it remains a persistent problem. Says Mira Gandy, 15, who works part time as an usher at a Broadway theater: "I go out with $100 and come back with only three things...
...European Community, under which that ten-nation group, pledged to hold steel shipments to the U.S. to 1 million tons under the 1981 level of 6.5 million tons. Any further move toward protectionism would almost surely destroy more jobs than it would save by provoking foreign retaliation that would crimp American exports-now 12% of the gross national product-and by impeding world trade enough to deepen the worldwide recession...
...trip to New York, died in Turkey as the clan was about to embark. This leaves the eldest son in the uneasy role of head of a reunited family that broods and sulks and squabbles even as it breathes the ennobling air of tenement America. His balky siblings gravely crimp this Broadway Joe's ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens...
These doubts about day care can put a crimp in the family future, and a dent in the budget, but they do not, as Schlafly might have us believe, atomize the American nuclear family. The quality of the day care and its basing near the job may come a little closer to a workable solution. In Massachusetts both Wang Laboratories, Inc., and Stride Rite Corp. have inaugurated model projects with long waiting lists of applicants. Stride Rite's program also includes the options of dental care and psychotherapy. Adjustments made to work schedules, so-called