Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is particularly important to avoid the "crunch" at the beginning of the term when all Reader Service clients need material at the same time. Many course materials are known well in advance and can be borrowed for recording purposes from a department if they are not yet available for purchase. All the student needs...
...Pete really came through in the crunch," Allocco said...
Ngwenya says he spends money only when the bills come through. "The creditors I avoided all summer because they didn't know where I was, now know. It's crunch time...
...openers, Gingrich would cap the antipoverty programs' expenditures. The poor would still be entitled to help, but benefits would decrease, in some cases dramatically. The crunch would really come as Gingrich moved to balance the budget by 2002. With Social Security deemed untouchable and defense spending scheduled to rise, about a trillion dollars would have to be cut over the next seven years to meet that goal. The antipoverty programs would be whacked severely. A White House estimate the G.O.P. does not dispute projects that 5 million children, half of those supported under the $23 billion-a-year...
...international peso-rescue package of as much as $13 billion, including private bank loans and $7 billion in credits from the U.S. and < Canada. That's in addition to a $6 billion currency swap fund that the U.S. already had in place to bolster Mexico in any currency crunch. News of that deal helped the peso move back upward and halted the accompanying downward swoop of the Mexican stock market...