Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought that we were going to win the [Penn] game but when it came to the crunch, they made the plays that mattered," Jones said...
...probably becoming scarce as far back as September 1990, when the Reichmanns announced they were trying to sell a 20% stake in their U.S. real estate portfolio. No deal was ever struck, suggesting that things would probably get worse before they got better. Last month fears of a cash crunch were confirmed when the value of some commercial paper and bonds backed by O&Y were suddenly downgraded by Toronto's Dominion Bond Rating Service. To calm edgy investors, O&Y said it would pay off a short-term bond within 10 days...
...employee teamwork have created a new generation of promising Chrysler cars, Jeeps and minivans. "You couldn't want better vehicles to market, heading into an upturn in the economy," says Joseph Phillippi, who watches the industry for Shearson Lehman Hutton. At the same time, Chrysler's chronic cash crunch (it lost $795 million last year) makes it crucial for the vehicles...
Israel and the U.S. have long been on a collision course over loan guarantees to help resettle Jews from the former Soviet Union. Last week the crunch finally came, sinking any chance of obtaining the guarantees anytime soon and pushing the two countries' ties into what one U.S. diplomat calls "the roughest patch I've seen...
...road to Rio de Janeiro will soon be jammed with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered...