Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real estate industry in Cambridge took advantage of the housing crunch of the '60s and used their power to drive up rents and increase their profits. Great for them, but what about the meat packer that has to pay that rent every month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month...
...statistically significant, and unfair because any books currently checked out could not be included. But it suggests at least, that a lot of books in Widener are going unused. And it shows a fallacy in all of the plans the library mavens are considering to alleviate the space crunch--they treat all 3,160,000 books in Widener (give or take a few hundred thousand) as equi-useful...
...just can't afford another injury," Kleinfelder says of her squad, which has kept the Harvard training room busier than a midday traffic crunch in Harvard Square. "But, in a strange way," she adds, "the injuries have really brought the team a lot closer...
Were this turmoil merely a result of the course's heavy workload, there would be less cause for concern. But slow computer response time, not heavy workload, lies at fault. Poor course planning and a shortage of computers have combined to create a painful computer crunch. Imagine attending a lecture where the professor pauses for a minute after every sentence and you can begin to understand the terrible inefficiencies involved with working on Harvard's computers...
...University's computer problems have not escaped notice. Three weeks ago, in an extraordinary move, the Administrative Board extended the withdrawal deadline for students in AM110. And in an effort to alleviate the computer crunch, an assignment has been dropped from the AM110 syllabus. While welcome admissions that a problem exists, neither action did anything to relieve the causes of Harvard's computer crisis...