Word: crunch
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Government efforts to help agriculture in general have not been especially effective for small farmers. Because of the credit crunch after the crash of 1987 and the millions of dollars in loans that went bad in the drought of the late eighties, the low interest rates of the past year and a half have not helped farmers as much as urban professionals. The constant battles over GATT and the EEC's agricultural subsidies have been more on behalf of big farming; small producers only feel the benefits of decreased foreign subsidies over several years, when market prices reset themselves...
...menu bears absolutely no relation to my meals because I don't eat the food Berry no doubt slaves over daily in a hot kitchen. Instead, I eat Cap'n Crunch, Lucky Charms, Crispix, Life, and, on a healthy day, a bowl of shredded wheat...
Clinton wouldn't go that far. Aides let it be known that the issue would wait until July, well, maybe September. That gave Magaziner three more months to crunch numbers. It gave skeptics from Lloyd Bentsen's Treasury Department and Laura Tyson's Council of Economic Advisers time to gather ammunition to scale back the proposal. Clinton wavered, but not for long; he still wanted to introduce it in the fall...
Reardon, too, says Rudenstine recognizes theneed to keep his agenda balanced. The problem, henotes, arises in explaining the time crunch toothers, and in denying them unlimited access tothe president...
Reardon, too, says Rudenstine recognizes theneed to keep his agenda balanced. The problem, henotes, arises in explaining the time crunch toothers, and in denying them unlimited access tothe president...