Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Librarians continue to face a space crunch, according to a member of the library staff who asked not to identified. The registrar's office and the food service, Soupcon, apparently took away needed storage space from the library...
Each year, it seems, a different House gets the crunch. Crowding is never anticipated; it's only compensated for the following year, when a particular House may take fewer rising sophomores in the lottery. Because the problem shifts around, there's never enough frustration in one place for students to mount a serious protest...
...indeed personal computers are to be the wave of Harvard's future, the University must arrange to factor their purchase its financial aid equations. Even more immediately, officials should be thinking of how to ease the current computing crunch, and in particular how to make sure all students have access to cheap and efficient word processing, currently the most glaring example of computer "deprivation...
...Miniaturization, which involves microfilming old books and buying new collections on film. Harvard already does some microfilming and purchases new volumes it doesn't have in paper form. But while it can ease the space crunch, microfilming also demands new space for reading rooms and film viewers. And, says Feng, "not everything is conducive to or a good candidate for microfilming...
Fewer air traffic controllers, more flights, a shortage of runways and gates, and summer storms have all been blamed for the crunch. But according to the Federal Aviation Administration, the airlines themselves are the most culpable. They prefer to schedule flights early in the morning and in the evening to coincide with the business day, and to bunch their operations on the hour. At Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport, 42 takeoffs and landings are scheduled between 8 a.m. and 8:09, though the airport is capable of handling only about 20 of them...