Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basically, the only place quiet enough to study for me is a library, especially during crunch time," she said...
...aides to craft a new approach to the Korean credit crisis, which they had long underestimated, at least in public. The three-hour dinner was a turning point in a months-long U.S. journey from backroom player to more visible leader in a global effort to solve the financial crunch. For months, Rubin & Co. had played down the crisis and balked at committing U.S. taxpayer dollars to a bailout that would help South Korea and the big financial institutions around the world that held its debts. But seven days before Christmas, the U.S. changed course, offering immediate...
...discovered that a big part of the job comes down to managing the economies of nations overseas. After taking a shellacking from Congress in 1995 for successfully bailing out Mexico with $20 billion in taxpayer-backed loans, Rubin was hardly eager to get out front in the Asian economic crunch. As the liquidity crisis swept across Southeast Asia last summer, Rubin and other U.S. officials urged the International Monetary Fund to take the lead. Washington did not regard the Thai or Malaysian economy as vital to American interests, and in a year that had seen far too many fund-raising...
WASHINGTON: It's universally true: You can't go home again, ever. The universe, which has been expanding at a constant rate since its inception with the "Big Bang," is not ultimately headed for collapse. It will expand forever. Scientists now say that the "Big Crunch" theory, which holds that the universe will finally compress itself into a tiny ball of unimaginable density, appears to have been flawed all along...
Rest Easy, Chicken Little You can finally stop worrying about the universe collapsing ? experts have refuted the "big crunch" theory...