Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the procrastinator can take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...
...JOSE, Calif.--When crunch time came for the Harvard men's basketball team at the Cable Car Classic, the Crimson looked to its perimeter players to make the plays down the stretch...
Ironically, it was a freshman who stepped upfor the Crimson in crunch time. Gates convertedtwo key lay-ups in the final 1:18 to help Harvardsurvive its own inexperience and Wofford's latecharge. Sturdy added a free throw with 11 secondsremaining to close out the scoring...
...Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents," says Sandra Hofferth, the sociologist who headed the study. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both dual-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers...
...markers, is slashing its marketing budget in spite of a hefty 14% increase in sales last year. "We have to hunker down here," says company president and CEO Gino N. Pala. "We have to watch things closely. I don't think we've felt the worst of the economic crunch yet. I think the damage has already been done, but we've got to work through it." He says that he intends to keep his staffing "flat" in the new year and that the company will have to do a better job in purchasing to keep its costs under control...