Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some 50 billion years from now, the galaxies will crush together to form the ultimate singularity?a single gigantic black hole?and the universe will cease to exist. Wheeler, for one, sees no escape from what he calls "this final crunch." Says...
...traditional male preference for younger spouses, men are turning increasingly to older women, who still sharply outnumber men above the age of 45. Significantly, since 1964, the number of males marrying women older than themselves has risen from 12% to 15%, and the trend is expected to continue. The crunch should come in the mid-1980s, when the men born at the tail end of Britain's postwar baby boom begin looking for brides in the smaller pool of women born during the 1960s. That prospect worries many population experts. They point out that a large surplus of males...
...precipitous drop in new seminarians may both be bottoming out. In West Germany's church, engorged though it is with $1.9 billion a year from public taxes, the Limburg diocese expects to have more lay missioners than priests running parishes by 1985. The major reason for the crunch is the rule of celibacy. The next Pope may be forced to re-examine that rule?and the role of women in the church as well...
...bright side of the orthodox wisdom is that growth will resume, moderately, in the second half of next year and the economy will not suffer a credit crunch but only a squeeze late this year and early next. In the New York financial community, the betting is that interest rates will go up a bit more, but not much; that Miller will get the money supply under control; that loan demand will fall as the economy slows; that Government borrowing will be heavy, but enough money will be left to meet the reduced borrowing demands of most?...
...banker as a man with shoes that were too tight, the pain from below traveling up to his face. Only a couple of years ago, Senator Henry Jackson lined up seven big oil executives as though they were schoolboys, and denounced them for their big profits in the oil crunch...