Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across his chest, and a fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...
...graduated repayment program relieves the financial crunch by allowing students to make annual installments that are adjusted to their expected future income...
Similar experiences in other cities resulted in a budget crunch that finally brought to a head the whole complex question of how education of all Americans can be made more nearly equal-and more equitably financed. That conundrum is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1971, courts in seven states-Texas, Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey and Wyoming-have ruled that using local property taxes to finance public education is unconstitutional. Similar cases are pending in 24 other states. The courts reason that the quality of a child's education should not be determined by the wealth...
...first signs of Tito's new turn appeared a little more than a year ago. His country was hit simultaneously by a shattering economic crunch and an outbreak of Croatian nationalism violent enough to stir fears that the Yugoslavian Federation might soon break up in tribal chaos. Evidently convinced that he had to restore tight, centralized control, Tito turned to the party, the only institution in the country, outside of the army, that could enforce order and discipline. Ever since, the party has been struggling to regain the central role in Yugoslavia's political and economic life that...
...will be in the 5% range, which will promote a lesser rate of rise in the gross national product in the latter part of the year than in the first part." Interest rates will probably drift up somewhat, but there is unlikely to be a repeat of the "credit crunch...