Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moskva is the first Soviet vessel in the Mediterranean equipped with ship-to-air as well as ship-to-ship missiles, and each time a U.S. Navy P-2 patrol plane tries to take a peek, the Russians swiftly swing the missiles below decks on elevator platforms. In a crunch, the helicopters could carry troops. In the future, the Moskva will be able to handle VTOL (vertical takeoff, landing) planes as well as helicopters...
...wisdom of the black students is for total separation, the crunch will come...
Neither team had easy going. On the second day out, as Caltech's Rippel approached Seligman, Ariz., he downshifted at 40 m.p.h. and heard a sickening crunch. Twenty-three hours passed before a new engine could be flown in from Michigan by sponsoring Electric Fuel Propulsion Inc. At Amarillo, Texas, an electronic nightmare of popping fuses and exploding diodes cost another four hours plus some added penalties for replacements...
...extended. It will not increase the overall money supply, just de-emphasize the Fed's buying and selling of Government securities to regulate the flow of money, which has not always been fully successful when the chips were down. It took several months during the 1966 credit crunch to improve bank lending by such means alone. "If the proposed revisions had been in effect," says a Federal Reserve Board official, "we could probably have moderated the very fast rate rises...
...rift with the White House, Kennedy insisted that he had no 1968 ambitions; that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from within and from without. To run and lose would be to risk his entire political career. To remain on the sidelines would be to violate his own principles and his pugnacious spirit?and perhaps throw away his future as events passed him by. Already the liberals whom...