Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleviate the housing crunch, the Summer School has already taken over the top floors of the River houses and all of Claverly Hall, both of which they had not planned to do. The top floors are usually very hot and uncomfortable in the summertime, so the School has not used them in the past. Some students may also not receive singles...
...recession, Lusinchi has little political room to maneuver. He has already promised that a job-creating $5 billion public-works program will not be touched. Venezuelans are counting on their nation's $13.7 billion of foreign-exchange reserves, the largest in Latin America, to see them through the current crunch...
...financial crunch has depleted the once proud merchant marines of Western countries. Britain's fleet has shrunk in a decade from more than 1,600 ships to just 614. One reason is the country's high labor costs. A British crew for a bulk carrier costs an estimated $1.5 million a year, vs. only $550,000 for Korean sailors or $275,000 for Chinese...
...element of surprise that is most unsettling to executives confronted by sudden catastrophe. Says Fink: "The savviest chief executive in the world often falls victim to a kind of paralysis when a crisis strikes." Any kind of conditioning may thus be comforting in a crunch. Says Jean Lipman-Blumen, a professor at California's Claremont Graduate School's Executive Management Program: "The worst part of a crisis is being unprepared. By removing the unexpected quality you are removing that which is most unnerving...
...means test and hopes that his legislation will force a compromise containing that idea, but thinks it will probably have to wait until next year. Meanwhile, no matter what compromise may be reached this year, even if it includes some new taxes that could partly alleviate the budget crunch, the President and Congress face one certainty: whatever they do to reduce the deficit is going to hurt. The crucial question in this election year is: What level of public squawks and protests will they tolerate before they lose the political will necessary to tackle the enormous problem...