Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They have no way of getting to the fast-growing suburban areas where jobs in stores, hotels, fast- food restaurants and the like go begging; public transportation out to the suburbs is often nonexistent. They also do not have easy access to the resort areas, where the summer-worker crunch is particularly severe...
...deregulation revolution began under Presidents Ford and Carter, but the Reagan Administration embraced the idea with energetic zeal. Hack, chop, crunch! were the sounds during the early 1980s as Reagan's regulatory appointees stripped away decades' worth of business restraints like so much prickly underbrush on the President's ranch. The expense of complying with federal regulations, Reagan claimed, had cost Americans between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. After only ten days in office, he put a freeze on more than 170 pending regulations. A drastic pullback of Government involvement in business followed, especially in federal attempts...
With both Mom and Dad away at the office or store or factory, the child- care crunch has become the most wrenching personal problem facing millions of American families. In 1986, 9 million preschoolers spent their days in the hands of someone other than their mother. Millions of older children participate in programs providing after-school supervision. As American women continue to pour into the work force, the trend will accelerate. "We are in the midst of an explosion," says Elinor Guggenheimer, president of the Manhattan-based Child Care Action Campaign. In ten years, she predicts, the number of children...
...crunch dissipated with some clever reshuffling and normal student attrition, the College began to devise solutions and the forecast is better for next year. The Quad renovations will be completed by early next fall and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 has implemented an annex housing plan that will house 101 undergraduates in rent-subsidized apartments in Peabody Terrace, the Botanic Gardens and 8-10 Mt. Auburn...
Currently, College officials are not planning on a repetition of last year's housing crunch Although they cannot be sure how big the undergraduate population will be until August--when students must tell the College they are taking time off--the number of returning students has dropped, Jewett says. And just in case, housing officer Lisa M. Colvin says she is still reserving 12 places in Claverly Hall which she will use for students from houses that turn out to be overcrowded next year...