Word: crunch
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...FORECAST FOR STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA: MORE crime and less punishment. District Attorney John Phillips has advised police chiefs of San Joaquin County that a budget crunch prevents him from prosecuting most misdemeanors. He faces a $1.1 million, or 22%, cut in his budget on June 30 if Governor Pete Wilson carries out a plan to divert local property-tax revenue to state coffers. Warned Phillips: "We have no choice but to commit remaining resources to the prosecution of the most serious crimes." Among misdemeanors, only drunken driving, domestic violence and resisting arrest will be prosecuted. Phillips may be trying to scare...
Wednesday's panels focused on the "biotechnology cash crunch" and the "U.S. health care crisis and biotechnology...
...lightly considered, since armed intervention could end the humanitarian aid effort that is keeping hundreds of thousands of Bosnians alive. But having schooled the Serbs for so long in the idea that it is unwilling to translate threat into action, the West, with Clinton at the fore, faces the crunch: talk of force in Bosnia has cheapened to worthlessness, leaving force itself the only effective option. The prospect for freedom and peace in Bosnia -- and in the Bosnias waiting to happen elsewhere -- demands no less...
...treat the clerical staff. They are not your servants nor are they there to take the blame everytime you screw up. Say "please" and do the little stuff on your own (it won't really hurt your dignity to address that letter yourself) and you will find that, come crunch time, the secretary will drop everything to rush your report to the Federal Express Office at the last possible minute. Behave like a kindergartener and you will confirm every suspicion they have of Harvard graduates. Worse, you will find that the graphics department put your project on lowest priority...
With all these problems, UHS needed dramatic changes. But how much change could it afford? It couldn't hire more doctors and nurses to shorten the first-floor lines. It couldn't move into a bigger building to solve the space crunch. It couldn't computerize its record system without incurring the kind of huge costs that the University would no longer tolerate...