Word: crunch
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With more than 200 cereal products fighting it out on the shelves--it can get ugly when Cap'n Crunch takes on Count Chocula at the A&P--lower prices would seem to be a natural result. Yet competition hasn't worked that way with cereals, though it has in other categories. (Prices of Coke and Pepsi are cheaper in real terms than they were a decade ago.) That is because the cereal manufacturers have been using consumers to finance what has become a very expensive marketing war. So as prices inflate, the companies use the additional money--about...
...semester is crunch time," Hursh explained while eating a chickwich, "I would have done it at a different time...
...this [fund] doesn't cover lessons," agrees James D. Yannatos, the conductor of HRO. "The financial crunch does come in here...
House practice rooms solve some of the space and timing crunch, but the poor acoustics and out-of-tune pianos of some houses dismay many musicians...
YOUR STORY "TODAY HONG KONG, Tomorrow Taiwan" [WORLD, Feb. 12] should have been titled "Taiwan--the Goose with the Golden Egg." Taiwan invested heavily in China and contributed greatly to its industrial modernization. If China attacked Taiwan, a war would break out. China might not win in a crunch, and the free world might side with Taiwan to condemn China's aggression and brutality. The outcome of such an engagement would by no means be predictable, but the economy of both sides would certainly suffer. For mainland China, it would be like killing the goose that laid the golden...