Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offset the financial crunch, the Boston clubhouse sets membership dues proportionately less for members who have graduated more recently. The club also waives initiation fees for students interested in joining. Gillberg says...
...sympathetic about the crunch that students feel," Bohlmann said...
...repeatedly threatening to invade Haiti in order to scare the Cedras clique into leaving. If the Carter mission could not talk them into decamping, he would really have to do it -- or send the world a message that threats from Washington can blithely be ignored because when the crunch comes, the U.S. will always shrink from using military force. The reason for toning down the credibility argument was all too clear: if Clinton has a problem, he brought it on himself...
...doubts and arguments underscore the immense gamble Clinton was taking in pushing the Haiti confrontation to a crunch. By common consent in Washington, he was risking his presidency on the outcome -- and he would not necessarily win even if Carter and friends could persuade Cedras and friends to depart quietly, or even if a U.S. invasion were to succeed quickly with minimal loss of life. Either development might relieve the immediate crisis but raise the ante for the U.S. to help foster enough of a stable democracy in the unhappy island nation to prove it was not all in vain...
...triumph of capitalism could lead to a global credit crunch...