Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crunch will be most acute for the small manufacturers who supply major contractors. Hans Weiss of Manchester, Conn., whose Dynamic Metal Products Co. welds machined engine parts for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters, has a two-year backlog of orders. He warns, "If subcontract work on the B-1 bomber comes here, we just won't be able to take it on." Apex Machine Tool Co. in nearby Farmington, Conn., which makes fixtures and gauges for giant lathes and milling machines used in aircraft production, is already running at 100% capacity. Says President...
Braniff badly needed the wage deferral assistance from its employees to ease a sudden and potentially ruinous cash crunch. The trouble arose when approximately $9 million worth of Braniff tickets were unexpectedly presented for redemption by the airline industry's ticket clearing house. The clearing house operates like a kind of back-office ticket exchange, allowing reservation agents for one airline to accept tickets for fares written by another carrier...
...last to graduate into a society relatively untouched by the Vietnam War. Gunnoe refers to his years as "the halcyon days, prior to the war building up...People felt they could do most anything they wanted to after graduation." There were wider possibilities for draft deferment then, before the crunch came in 1966. "Options tightened with the war, but we were full of possibilities." Gunnoe remembers...
...meaningful benefits to those who choose to contribute to it A number of important and difficult decisions will be made by the Faculty and administration of Harvard in the next few years, without the Council, these decisions will be made without student input How to solve the financial aid crunch, and the House demographic disparities, what to do with the unpopular calendar, what course requirements should be, whether an additional year of foreign language requirement will be added, what tuition will be all those are pending questions for the Faculty and administration Regardless of how students feel on the issues...
...flash that while there are lines of traffic in New England stopped at red lights, the Texans are more efficient, using four-way stop signs, one of which I hadn't noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when my left arm hit the dashboard. What would my father think? What about the lady in the other car? What about the Oranges...