Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shortages of oil and the depletion of energy is not occurring. Instead of an oil crunch, we have an oil glut and population growth has slowed. Economic factors are part of all of these," said Allen Sinai, chief economist of The Boston Company, Inc. "The doomsday scene and devastating shortages predicted have never come to pass...
...former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who accepted a $500,000 annual draw largely for lending his conservative name to the shingle. Myerson & Kuhn soon boasted 170 lawyers, but the firm had to borrow just to pay its high-profile partners, and Myerson's spending habits worsened the crunch. By 1989 the partnership was in Chapter...
...main reason for the stalled development is the widespread "credit crunch," according to David E. Clem, a partner of the Athenaeum group. "Banks have overextended themselves from commercial lending," he says...
...decided to write about "the marriage crunch," only to discover what demographers already knew: the figures were based on unorthodox calculations of unrepresentative samples. More men than women were rushing out to dating services, and in the prime marrying years of 24 to 34, there were 119 single men for every 100 single women. What bothered Faludi was not just that the numbers were wrong; it was that many of the stories read like morality tales, whispering threats about the cost of postponing marriage in favor of having a career. Fear of spinsterhood stormed into the popular culture, giving birth...
Giroux said the space crunch at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School is not as great...