Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proportion of total income provided by gifts and government grants also declined. Only miscellaneous and student sources of income increased their portion of the budget burden during the last decade. Of all the categories, student fees is the most flexible source of income, and students have felt the crunch in the form of tuition hikes above the rate of inflation. As a result, students supplied 29.1 per cent of University income in 1980, compared with 23 per cent...
...Iraq war. Scenes of terrorist violence in Italy and Spain. "There are wars you can see," a narrator intones. "And others that are devious." Japanese-built motorbikes in front of a Paris dealership make a point about trade war. A shot of Middle East oil wells suggests the energy crunch...
...crunch for this year's lacrosse team was the lack of pre-season practice time. That's what Scalise points to when he talks about the troubles of a team with ten freshmen and an unsettled line-up, a team whose biggest problem against Boston College was shooting the ball, a skill that takes time to polish after your stick's been collecting dust in the closet since last summer...
Fighting the goober crunch...
Concerned by the blood crunch, doctors are turning to once out-of-favor methods of conserving blood during surgery.* Two techniques now making a comeback...