Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every human being on Earth every second (fortunately, without doing any damage). Even a minuscule mass could give them enough combined gravity to slow the expansion of the universe that followed the Big Bang. They might conceivably even reverse it, leading to a cosmic catastrophe aptly named the Big Crunch. No need to panic, though; it won't happen for tens of billions of years...
...student activities funds are expected to alleviate the money crunch burdening many of Harvard's undergraduate organizations...
...Robinson found that mothers still spend about four times as much time with children as fathers do. Psychologist Carin Rubenstein, author of The Sacrificial Mother, found that twice as many moms as dads are involved at school. Soccer moms make up a third of soccer coaches. When the real crunch comes, 83% of mothers stay home with a sick child, reading Goodnight Moon endlessly, compared with 22% of fathers...
...state constitution (exempting itself from taxes, but that is another story), but the University is a proud part of Cambridge, relying on and contributing to the community is ways that, say, Stanford--which is its own municipality--does not. Yet everyone agreed that a day off, especially in April crunch time, would be welcomed with open arms...
...saying, to fix the roof while the sun is shining"--the fact is, politicians usually have to be staring a crisis in the face before they are willing to do anything painful to stop it. The danger to Social Security is real but not immediate. Though the crunch may begin to be felt as early as 2008, when the system starts paying out more than it brings in, it will not go into bankruptcy for three more decades...