Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banker can compete with an institution that has no bad loans and that has grown with the help of government underwriting of its takeovers. The small guy is going to go under. We have in a sense nationalized the system. And the diminished bank competition is aggravating the credit crunch...
...industry's problems have affected consumers and companies by discouraging banks from lending to any but their most creditworthy customers. The resulting credit crunch helped bring on the recession and drive up unemployment, which the government said last week reached 6.1% in December, the highest level in more than three years. Moreover, big banks have kept lending rates high to bolster sagging profits, which fell to $3.8 billion in the third quarter of 1990, down from $5.3 billion in the April-June period. Most major banks waited until last week to lower their prime rate a half- point...
...this point in time, the exams are more on my mind, but if you had asked me a week ago, I would have said Saudi Arabia," said Thomas W. Madsen '94, voicing a common sentiment of students now feeling the exam crunch...
Linquist said that with the crunch in hiring,"the biggest problem for this year's graduateslooking for jobs is that they will be battlingwith graduates of a few years ago who have a lotmore experience...
...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...