Word: crimping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly tangible. Rocked by $115 million in losses on its leveraged investments in bonds and other securities, Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, Ohio, said last week it was slashing 11% from all county budgets and was freezing spending for the next four years. Some of the harshest cuts will crimp children's services, as planned hirings of social workers are put on hold. "It means that if you should be making four visits to a child's home one month, you will be able to make only two," says David Reines, deputy county administrator. "These are children who have been...
...saved from cancellation after two seasons only with the help of a letter-writing campaign from fans. But in its third season, NBC moved the show to a weak time slot, on Fridays at 10 p.m., and cut its budget by $9,000 an episode, putting a further crimp in the already bargain-basement special effects. The show was gone after that season...
First, the team was playing with out its top player in Martins, which put a crimp in its already-struggling power play and forced Tomassoni to juggle his lines. Yet Harvard still scored three goals, hits the post twice and managed 27 shots on net and 50 total shot attempts...
...white kids have caught up to them. There was a lot of free sex in the '60s: the percentage of adults who have racked up 21 or more sex partners is significantly higher among the fortysomething boomers than among other Americans. And aids has put a crimp in some people's sex lives: 76% of those who have had five or more partners in the past year say they have changed their sexual behavior, by either slowing down, getting tested or using condoms faithfully...
...feel really lucky to have taken A-12 when I did," Radtke said. "His absence really put a crimp in some people's curriculum...