Word: crunches
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...sake, and in reality it is doubtful that the long ordeals of medical school, residency and internship draw more of the nation's wealth-seeking students than Wall Street. Yet unfortunately, the medical establishment continues to offer monetary incentives to alleviate its problems--among them, the primary care crunch...
Wursthaus isn't the only historic Square establishment feeling the crunch. In recent months, Tommy's Lunch, the Cambridge Booksmith and Reading International Bookstore have all closed their doors for good...
...hope. Both the federal and provincial governments are sending fact-finding missions to the settlement, now that the most recent tragedy has put a national spotlight on Davis Inlet. But official concern cannot easily lift the air of sadness and fatalism in the bedraggled village. Because of a budget crunch, Constable Tsnakapesh was laid off for a week along with the village's other cop. Tsnakapesh, 24, continued to take police calls, though. "I have no authority," he says, "but I've been where these kids are now. My parents were both drinkers and committed suicide. I was 13 when...
Instead of hiring, such giants as IBM, General Motors, United Airlines and Eastman Kodak are still slashing their payrolls. And dynamic small start-up firms -- which created 20 million jobs in the 1980s -- have faced a lending crunch that denies them the capital they need to grow and add new jobs. All that has left the health-care and temporary-help industries as the chief source of hiring since the recession officially ended in March...
...much matter in the universe that the outward expansion ignited by the Big Bang would eventually be counteracted by the force of gravity. The universe would ultimately cease its expansion and begin to collapse under its own weight, imploding in a catastrophic finale that theorists have dubbed the Big Crunch. But the presence of so much dark matter also has implications for the question Alcock ponders: What is all this stuff made of? The more dark matter there is, the less likely it is to resemble ordinary matter...