Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's never been a demonstration in favor of tax increases," said Johnston, a former state legislator. "But we'll have to be calm and tell the people the reality of the budget crunch--that this is a progressive tax increase...
...country's most intractable problems. With a population nearly half the size of the U.S.'s squeezed into an area no bigger than Montana, Japan has virtually no room left in its teeming cities. Developers have built towering skyscrapers and even artificial islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize...
Elaborate plans are being drawn up for 21st century subterranean cities that may relieve the country's space crunch. Offices below ground level could create a new class of vertical commuters...
...ethic himself. After the meeting with fund raisers, he critiques game films, takes a conference call from Upward Bound girls on campus visits, and works on funding proposals in his living room. There's a curiously unfinished look here: unpapered walls, some exposed studs, sparse furniture. When a cash crunch hit the academy, he and Aline diverted second-mortgage money intended for remodeling and refurnishing. "Hey," he shrugs, "it'll get fixed someday...
...other hand, the Quincy Square lot could alleviate the severe crunch in FAS office space, Engell said, adding that the faculty's limited physical resources interfere with efforts to recruit new scholars. Many departments, he said, cannot provide offices for junior professors...