Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's ghosts are something of a secret among the powers that be, apparently, which should come as no surprise. Administrators don't want to go on record talking about things science can't explain. Like the tenure process, and the housing crunch, and the food. Of course, they stand to lose a great deal if they appear ridiculous in print...
...over and Jennie's name invoked once more, but surely not for the last time, the small crowd filed out to watch the much advertised implosion. The dynamite made a racket, and smoke issued from the crumbling front of the building. The comedians turned away as bulldozers began to crunch the sides of the playhouse. In profile, the yellow machines appeared to grin, as sharks do when they attack an obsolete old whale...
...Houses and apartments in central Reykjavik were renting for an unheard of $6,000 to $7,000 for the summit week. "This is a chance of a lifetime," said one woman. "I'd much rather be in Majorca anyway." The Soviet Union plans to solve the space crunch by sending one or more cruise ships to Reykjavik harbor to act as floating hotels for reporters and support workers...
...class have taken leaves of absence. Among members of the Class of 1986, only 262 took time off--nearly 150 students fewer than just four years ago. This year, for example, College officials have cited the declining number of leave-takers as a direct cause of the campus housing crunch...
With U.S. manufacturers under fierce competitive pressure from abroad and organized labor feeling the same crunch, what better time for a mail-order catalog of goods made by unionized American hands? Just such an order book will be available next week on a trial basis to some 100,000 members of the AFL-CIO. Created by Marc Schechtman, 35, general manager of a union shopping distributor in Fairfield, Iowa, the Union Label Shopper lists some 45 brand- name products, ranging from Dingo boots to West Bend appliances to ProctorSilex cookware, all at about 10% off store prices...