Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon, the crunch comes early next year, when Congress is likely to decide whether to press for his impeachment. Last week Vice President Gerald Ford urged the House Judiciary Committee to speed up its leisurely pace and get the impeachment question out of the way before the congressional election campaign begins in earnest. He said that if the issue is not resolved by April, "then you can say it is partisan." Indeed, some Democrats would like to have the committee's proceedings drag on into the year to embarrass the G.O.P...
...most heated exchange of the meeting, Foreign Minister Jobert accused the U.S. of undermining European security by signing an Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War with the Soviet Union last June. The French have long argued that if the crunch ever came, the U.S. would never risk the destruction of New York to save Paris-or Manchester, Munich or Milan. Echoing the thoughts of many of his colleagues, Jobert maintained that the U.S.-Soviet pact had brought into question the guarantee of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and, by implication, the Atlantic Alliance itself...
Panic Buying. Beyond the economic crisis, the political paralysis of the Tanaka government has created a crisis of confidence in it. Housewives have indulged in a wave of panic buying of such potentially scarce items as sugar and soap. Some experts fear that when the real crunch comes early next year, particularly if there are severe food shortages, Japan could be plagued by consumer riots...
Kaufmann said he was worried about the possible crunch on middle class members of the Harvard community. "There could be a bipolarity, with rich students and those on full scholarships," he said...
Many said as much. Wayne Aspinall, former Chairman of the House Interior Committee, said long before the current crunch, for instance, that he was "truly frightened by the potential conflict between pro-Israel sentiment in this country and our increasing reliance on Arab oil. I believe the U.S. is about to be caught in a Middle Eastern power play...