Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, Harvard has tended not to admit "one-dimensional academics" who would not be a part of the Harvard residential community but, "as the money crunch gets tighter, this option becomes more attractive," Mosley added...
Hemmed in by inflation, recession, the energy crunch and rising unemployment, middle-class Americans might logically be retrenching-or even digging trenches. In fact, the economic malaise seems to have generated an extraordinary happy-woe-lucky mood. As a laid-off Manhattan construction superintendent puts it: "I could have played out my savings and played safe, but I wanted to enjoy myself. This is the last great splurge." It could be called the Doom Boom...
Travel patterns have, however, been modified by the money crunch. As one agent says: "Travel to Europe is dead, but dead-killed by the high cost of European jaunts." At Winer's agency, 60% of all bookings in the past month have been to the Caribbean-at an average cost per couple of $1,000. Jack Benjamin, a salesman in the languishing retail-garment trade, recently took his wife for a week at the Club Mediterranee in Martinique-a trip that set them back $1,400. Now they have paid for a return visit to the same resort...
...mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their outward flight. The expansion would halt, and all the parts of the universe would begin to fall inward, eventually crushing together again in a final cataclysm. Some closed universe theorists hold out the possibility that matter would in effect rebound from the crunch in another big bang and that the universe would continue to oscillate, expanding and contracting forever. Now both theories seem to be seriously undermined...
...York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose's white settlers, the Indians have refused to budge. The squat-in is fast approaching a legal crunch, and TIME Cor respondent Don Sider recently visited the Indian camp. His report...