Word: crunchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a scrupulous numbers cruncher end up having to impose $115 million in new taxes? Federal tax reform. To take advantage of the favorable capital-gains measures in the old law, taxpayers unloaded huge quantities of stocks and property in 1986. That boom in financial transactions gave Massachusetts a $140 million budget surplus in 1987. The bill came due this spring, when tax revenue from the windfall dried up and the state found itself in the red. Similar scenarios have unfolded in New York and California, where fellow Democrat Mario Cuomo and Republican George Deukmejian each face deficits...
...solid defense will be anchored by sophomore Chris Norton, chosen by the Winnipeg Jets in the most recent draft, and Tri-Captain Mike Schafer, a four-year starter who will be the team's cruncher at the blue line...
Offers of assistance have come from other quarters as well. Jordin Kare, a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, has suggested that a 24-in. Schmidt telescope in Australia be used with a computer scanning system called the Star Cruncher to survey the Southern Hemisphere skies. If these approaches turn up a blank, Kare and Muller will launch a Star Cruncher search in the north. And at JPL, Astrophysicist Thomas Chester, chief of the I.R.A.S. data team, is sifting through recorded I.R.A.S. transmissions looking for Nemesis and other unusual objects. Although I.R.A.S. operated for only ten months in 1983 before dying...
...Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above all, for the kind of blurting psychic truth under pressure that no villager could know...
...this fall against an Ivy opponent had to have seen the performance of former third-stringer Greg Gizzi in the quarterback spot last week, as he completed 12 of 19 passes, ran for two touchdowns and was later named Ivy League Player of the Week. And the mysterious number-cruncher must have noticed the Harvard defense returning slowing to full strength, as lineman Barry Ford and linebacker Andy Nolan finally saw action after missing several games with injuries...