Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to Sports Information director Dave Mathews, is the loss of revenue resulting from the Harvard-Dartmouth contest being scheduled in Hanover, N.H., this year for only the fourth time since 1882. The Big Green always drew a full house in Cambridge, but Dartmouth is feeling its own financial crunch and demanded a share of the action in Hanover...
Earnings Needed. The Ford Administration has one option that could ease the price crunch in the U.S: export controls that would in effect ration the amount of U.S. food made available to an increasingly hungry world. No proposal for such controls has yet been made to the President, but some Administration officials favor them. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz is opposed; he argues persuasively that controls would sabotage world trade by undermining confidence in the willingness of the U.S. to fulfill its agreements, and that the nation sorely needs large export earnings from farm goods to pay for imports...
When the building was under construction last winter during the crunch of the energy shortage, concern mounted over possible delays in the dormitory's completion. Precautionary plans were made to house only Boston-area freshmen who could commute to Harvard if the dorm could not be ready in time...
...salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen. In the final crunch of negotiation, they discover that he is a tough bargainer. To use his own favorite word, Davidson is a brilliant "closer"-a combination of salesman and lawyer who knows how to wrap up a deal and make it stick...
Mezvinsky knows the issue may be with him the rest of his life. "There is an eerie quality to it all," he says. "This is no carnival. We are moving into the crunch." It got very serious last week, far more than the rest of us know. At the Kennedy Center last Tuesday night, watching All the King's Men, based on the story of Huey Long, corruption of public officials and impeachment proceedings, he wondered to himself if this was what politics always came to-the loss of ethics and moral fiber...