Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unusual Step. The first crunch came in June. After each chamber passed a separate bill, a House-Senate conference committee settled on $25.8 billion for procurement of equipment. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate's new Budget Committee, called for rejection of the measure, pointing out that it was some $900 million over the targeted figure for that category. For help, Muskie turned to Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, the committee's ranking Republican. Though Bellmon usually backs high defense spending, he is also a fiscal conservative. The two men made a deal: Bellmon agreed...
...looks rather like an indulgent schoolteacher, but has been a crack jet pilot and commander of Syria's air force. In negotiations, he at first seems to waffle and waver, yet even Kissinger has come to respect his exquisite sense of timing and his decisiveness in the crunch. Outwardly modest and self-effacing, inwardly tough, Assad today appears to be consolidating his control of Syria, a country that underwent no fewer than 21 coups or coup attempts after the French mandate ended in 1946. Last month Assad celebrated the fifth anniversary of the "corrective movement" that brought...
...also left the team.) At the time, Hines refused to comment on the matter. Now he is willing to say the conflict between his life on and off the court had become too great. He felt he was cheating himself in both his athletic and academic pursuits. When the crunch came, Hines decided to take the off-court life more seriously...
...they applauded; and if they did clap, they certainly didn't yell. A healthy rooter two rows back with a pathological hatred of Pete Rose was one of the few not intimidated by the surrounding patrons, who ogled her at every shout as though she had asked for Captain Crunch cereal in a health food store. Many onlookers had to consult their ($2.00) programs to find out that No. 19 was Freddy Lynn; others couldn't even identify No. 8. Senator Brooke looked as though he regretted not having brought a staff man to explain the rules of the game...
...ECONOMIC CRUNCH of the seventies--producing many college trained cab drivers and dishwashers-- has not encouraged educated workers and students to organize against capital, nor has their education given them more humanistic values than their less-educated blue collar counterparts. The threat of further downward mobility has thrown students back to a petit bourgeois outlook. At more exclusive colleges like Harvard, the "new mood on campus" stands as a polite metaphor for a new isolation and an increased competition for the few types of work that are still independent...