Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gary L. Frenkel, another member of the Academics Committee, mentioned a number of suggestions for alleviating the reading period crunch, including not allowing exams or quizzes during the two weeks before exams, as well as not allowing the introduction of new material into courses...
...most part the hackers looked more like backpackers or professional musicians than any stereotype image of computer nerds. By day, they met for discussions and debates that included a face-off between Bonn Parker, a computer-crime expert, and John Draper, the legendary "Cap'n Crunch," who developed a system for making free phone calls by using the toy whistle from a breakfast-cereal box to imitate the tone used by AT&T for long-distance calls. At night the hackers clustered around a dazzling array of computer hardware that beeped and glowed until 4 o'clock each...
...surprise enrollment surge triggers a campus housing crunch...
Many economists think that the only thing currently saving the economy from a crunch is the capital flowing in from abroad. Lured by the lofty interest rates and attractive business opportunities available in the U.S., foreigners are pouring about $100 billion this year into American investments, including bank accounts, stocks, bonds and Treasury securities. Without that influx, U.S. interest rates would be even higher. Says Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor who served for two years as Reagan's chief economic adviser: "Although no one knows when the capital from abroad is going to dry up, the U.S. should...
...EASY for the College to arrange housing for 6000 undergraduates. Each year students take time off, others return, many request inter-House transfers, and off-campus students want to enter the Houses. Administrators maintain that they can do little in the short run to alleviate the crunch, because there is only so much flexibility in they system. They've got a point. And that's precisely the problem...