Word: crimp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right. Welcome to a forecasting folly called "the presidential cycle." In theory, it makes sense. As CEO of the U.S., the President can tighten the nation's belt in the first year or two of his term, then bust the budget in years three and four. That pattern would crimp corporate earnings and stock prices in the first half of a presidential term (giving savvy investors a chance to buy low), and boost them in the second half (time to take profits...
...dearth of office space puts a crimp in any plans to expand or recruit new faculty...
...dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun to organize not-in-my-backyard campaigns to prevent anything spoiling the idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel's effort to expand, too. This "clean" energy source, in truth, falls short of immaculate. The old, large cooling towers, which look like nuclear power plants, spoil the view for kilometers around, and the energy production leaves a sulfuric smell in the air. Still, it is safe compared...
...last December's suicide attack on the Indian Parliament by jihadis linked to Pakistan put a crimp in the style of the D-Company. India moved 1 million troops to the border and demanded the return of 20 fugitives, including Dawood and Shakeel, and five other men from Bombay who masterminded the 1993 blasts. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he has no knowledge that they're living in his country. They shouldn't be that hard to find. I still have their Pakistani phone numbers and addresses from 1999. Musharraf has privately told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that...
...make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week a Federal Trade Commission settlement with major record companies put a crimp in that business. It said consumers may have overpaid $480 million in the past three years and that the companies would change their pricing policies...