Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reardon, too, says Rudenstine recognizes theneed to keep his agenda balanced. The problem, henotes, arises in explaining the time crunch toothers, and in denying them unlimited access tothe president...
...shown on a screen somewhere. Union Pacific dispatcher John Cazahous in Omaha, Nebraska, once spotted 14 runaway freight cars from another line 1,500 miles away in Los Angeles. Within 11 minutes he had alerted California crews, who placed three locomotives in the path to take the crunch. No lives were lost. Locomotives that used to sit for days waiting for loaded cars are now turned around in hours. Empty cars are shuttled like airplanes. Huge "hump" operations like Conrail's Selkirk Yard, near Albany, New York, can sort 3,200 freight cars a day and send out trains...
...Baskin-Robbins has been spared the fury of these extremists even though they don't offer Raspberry Peanut Crunch as a topping "choice...
That's the way the credit crunch has brought rapid growth to many nonbank lenders. "There is plenty of demand for financing from small companies," says Access Capital president Miles Stuchin. "It's just that the banks are turning them down." Stuchin set up a finance company in 1986 that Inc. magazine last year placed in the top 20% of the 500 fastest-growing companies...
Budget cuts have hit the Class Report Office, and McCoubrey says, "It's difficult to operate in our crunch time with the staff we have available...