Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock is ticking with four weeks to go and 70-plus pages yet to be written for seniors experiencing the annual high-pressure thesis crunch...
...both the Harvard and Princeton women's basketball teams, this is crunch time...
Ickes and Doug Sosnik, the White House political director, are already gaming out electoral strategies. The Clinton re-election team expects the critical states to be Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Missouri, Connecticut and Maine, with the real crunch states being Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey...
Marcy didn't rest on his euphoria. He and Butler went into high gear, determined to be at least the second team to find planets around a sunlike star. They begged telescope time from their colleagues and borrowed more than $100,000 worth of computer equipment to crunch gigabytes' worth of data from observations stretching back over eight years. "We knew," says Butler, "that we could get scooped again and again by the Swiss team...
Confidence is running high for the Harvard men's basketball team. Three consecutive victories have lifted the Crimson's overall record to 8-5, and the squad seems to have come together right on the verge of crunch time...