Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image was forming of olive-skinned men in hoods, pink-cheeked men in gray suits and straight-faced Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, and his computer, all working together to shut down the planes and gas stations and steam heat in Harvard Houses. The 1973-74 energy crunch didn't leave Harvard's children stranded or shivering, of course. But it gave them a scare...
...writer, Macdonald has the soul of a middle linebacker. Crunch! goes the hit, opinion foremost like an elbow to the head. But the art of Macdonald lies in the way he wraps up a victim after he has wobbled him. (1), (2), (3), (a), (b), (c)-he smothers his foe with Q.E.D. exercises in logic and item upon item of proof. As he closes in for the kill, Macdonald may mimic the cries of the wounded. He offers spot-on parodies of Norman Mailer, Wolfe and circa 1938 TIME-"celebrated last month by potent Newsmagazine TIME, its fifteenth birthday...
...more than just platitudes and empty warnings: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is, for the first time in at least 20 years, in serious financial trouble. The evidence of the crunch is everywhere...
Bruised Knuckles. The Administration recognizes that the housing industry needs special help if it is to survive the crunch, and last week the White House began providing some. Ford signed into law the Brooke-Cranston bill, a measure that will pump $7.75 billion of federal funds into the sere U.S. residential mortgage market over the next twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over...
...monetary loss from Fiat's grande stangata (big sting) was the realization that an economic crunch had at last hit Fiat, which survived earlier crises without shortening the work week...