Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies extract half of the coal by surface mining, using gigantic 20-story shovels that can crunch 120 cu. yds. of earth in one bite, exposing the coal veins for an army of other machines to attack. Mechanization has come to underground mines, too. In the big ones, miners no longer loosen the coal with explosives and pry it from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons...
Until he does, Doonesbury seems likely to be the strip of the '70s, if any strips survive. Rising prices and chronic shortages of newsprint have driven editors to drop marginally popular panels and shrink survivors to the size of chewing-gum wrappers. That crunch may eventually catch up with Doonesbury, which needs plenty of space for its extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant...
Close to $500 of the HRO's small budget is spent each year on publicity. These funds would be much better spent on acquiring new pieces for the orchestra's library. In response to the financial crunch, both the HRO and Bach Society increased their ticket prices this year, with the regrettable effect of reducing the number of students who choose to afford the concerts. One can only note that the MIT orchestra's free concerts nearly always draw over 2000 listeners...
...crunch came in October as personal attachments went down the tube--a rancorous, belated graduation present...
...holiday proceeded on this colorful note. Near L.S.'s house was a scene guaranteed to blind you with its eternal glory. In Birminghan the "energy crisis" or at least the rising cost of electricity has precluded most outdoor decorations, but if the Southern industrialists are feeling the crunch, the Northern ones don't seem to. Some gentleman, purportedly with a crewcut and perhaps even a VFW, has consecrated his entire property to the glory of God. At least 30 small trees, not to mention the big ones, are strung with lights; a large manger scene graces his front lawn...