Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shouldn't have to wait too late, even if we do get a crunch time at noon," Wentzell said...
...children pad down the stairs on Saturday morning, and after a quick breakfast they're beckoned to an adjacent room by a blank TV screen. Taken in hand by the remote control, they are led through a world populated by Power Rangers, Animaniacs, the Cryptkeeper, Cap'n Crunch, Hulk Hogan, the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Ducks, Rugrats, Spider-Man, Superman, Pinky and the Brain, Barbie, Nightmare Ned, The Undertaker...
...TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst says the year-old program has performed poorly, and faces "enormous challenges." That's because federal, state and local governments aren't working well together to train welfare recipients. "They're headed for a crunch," says Van Voorst. So far, a mere 750 companies have promised to hire at least one welfare recipient. And it's not as if the federal government is setting an example: It has, so far, hired a scant 410 welfare recipients...
...employee company has not cramped Mohajer's slacker style. "I function like an average human being of my age. I go to clubs, movies and watch MTV," she says. "It's so fun! I'm a TV junkie. I need to go to Melrose Anonymous! Eating Cap'n Crunch and watching TV--two things I live for. Twice a week we have all-girls' night. My best friends come over. We watch TV and gossip and scream and yell and do our nails...
Even some first-years have tried to beat the crunch. Melissa R. Langsam '00, a Crimson editor, said when she visited Harvard as a high school senior, someone told her to make her Commencement hotel reservations well in advance--if she should decide to attend Harvard...