Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROBERTSON. His advocacy of a higher birthrate to produce more taxpayers and thus solve the Social Security crunch...
Spurring the trend, which is largely confined to white professionals, is the fabled man crunch: single women over 35 far outnumber single men their age. According to Government statistics, nearly 40% of brides ages 35 to 44 resolve this demographic dilemma by marrying younger men. While the age difference is usually just a few years, the gap appears to be widening. In 1970 only 3.7% of brides were five years or more older than their mates; now that figure has reached...
...great. We could move the ball and they couldn't. But when they did, it was deadly. It was getting to be crunch time, and the enemy was moving the ball again. And about the time Harvard's male cheerleaders did their last "caterpillar," Yale made a turnover, and The Game was ours...
...prediction that the stock slump would clip half a point off Britain's 3.0% projected growth rate next year. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for a healthy dose of budgetary realism in Washington, and Chancellor Lawson reminded tight-fisted central bankers in Bonn that it was a credit crunch that turned the 1929 Crash into the painful 1930s Depression. Said he, referring to West Germany's reluctance to stoke its economy: "It would certainly be helpful if the German monetary authorities were to show more awareness of this...
Students said that the new gym will hopefully allevaite some of the crunch on the B-School's current athletic facility, Carey Cage...