Word: crunch
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Consider too his theory of how the universe, believed to be expanding from the Big Bang with which it all began, will eventually end. Hawking posits a reversal of this process, a "Big Crunch," in which the universe contracts to a point where it will achieve the infinite density of a doomed star, in effect concluding as a gigantic black hole. This is a process that, in his own way, Hawking has been experiencing for decades. As his mother says in the film, you can hardly call him lucky to be afflicted as he is, but neither can you deny...
...jokingly explains that his early running from police officers and wrestling with other boys kept him in shape. "He's still got a wild side, a sharp edge," says Franson. "He's a committed risk taker, which is just what you need when a competition comes down to the crunch." Although Johnson made a local all-star baseball team as a pitcher, he continued to put much more energy into such nighttime activities as breaking into the warehouse of a local beer distributor...
...chieftains took on in the '80s continues to hobble spending, and it forces companies to keep tight control of costs. At the same time, the overbuilding binge that glutted America's skylines with vacant buildings has pushed the construction industry into a depression and helped precipitate a general credit crunch. And the end of the cold war means that defense contractors could slash as many as 900,000 jobs over the next six years...
Rudenstine appointed Jeremy R. Knowles as dean of the Faculty in the spring of 1991. Since then, Knowles has brought a British flair to his task of dealing with a budget crunch and building the ranks of the faculty...
...wear them all the time except for the crunch stereotype," Luecke says...