Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frightful as it was under Stalin, if only because the Russian people are so much better informed now and probably would not stand for such mass terror. Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only...
...Harvard faculty member says, attempting to project just how bad the job crunch will be "is like predicting the numbers of traffic fatalities on Labor Day weekend." The humanities disciplines will be especially hard hit; during the coming decade, it is estimated that 2500 new recipients of humanities doctorates will have to scramble for 900 academic posts each year...
Graduate students have sought a wide variety of solutions to the academic job crunch, ranging from driving cabs to belatedly enrolling in law school. In an experimental program at the New York University (NYU) School of Business Administration scheduled to start in June, 50 carefully selected graduate students and recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and related social science disciplines will trade in their Kierkegaard and 16th-century French history studies for a hard-nosed look at the world of corporate management...
...hard line on terrorists, the Christian Democratic opposition has been accusing Schmidt of being too soft. Schmidt thus may feel he has to act especially tough this time and stand up to the skyjackers and Schleyer's abductors. Remarked one harried chancellery aide: "We are reaching the crunch...
...personal welfare becomes the ability to stay ahead of the crowd. Generalized growth increases the crunch by increasing expectation. Social scarcity tightens its grip. What they get, in the growing sphere of social scarcity, depends to an increasing extent on their position in the social hierarchy. Hence, the paradox of affluence...