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...vivid sensation. When you allow yourself to ease into the run, as if you're easing into a hot bath, the sensations come to you gradually. You feel your body warming up. You feel yourself hitting a stride. Nothing ever feels forced. It feels soothing and fun. The only crunch time was the last 10 miles or so - they were a little hard. I thought there was going to be more water, but they ran out. One man, Barefoot Ted, was drinking his urine at one point...
...team’s first option on every crucial possession, Lin often saved his best work for crunch time. Against Brown on Feb. 9, Lin hit a free throw with no time left on the clock to give Harvard a 64-63 home win, capping his 22-point second half...
...families that live in public shelters will have to turn over a portion of their earnings, in some cases as much as 50%, to cover costs. About 2,000 of the 9,000 families living in homeless shelters will be affected as the city grapples with a major budget crunch...
Such is the danger of the analogy-packed way we choose to discuss the economy. We talk of the housing "bubble," of stocks "skyrocketing" and "cratering," of the credit "crunch," of the possibility of "zombie" banks. These are not rigorous terms. And yet through them we view the world - often in imprecise, flawed ways that don't even necessarily carry the same imprecise, flawed meanings from person to person. From there we make some pretty hard-core decisions. If we hadn't so consistently been talking about the potential for financial "collapse" or economic "free fall" late last year, maybe...
...editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Jesse Sheidlower has a bird's-eye view of how words do - or don't - make their way into the book that defines the English language. The past year has seen such additions as subprime and credit crunch. Those words had been around for quite some time, but it took a while for the OED to give them their own entries. "We're not going to just put in buzzwords," says Sheidlower. "We're not going to put in something that will go away three months from now." Which is perhaps...