Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. In this holiday season, however, office parties, business gifts, Christmas cards to customers and year end bonuses to employees are not as pervasive as in previous years. Caution about the economy, confusion over Phase 11, and a generally rising level of employee sophistication have combined to produce a crunch that is taking away those Christmas extras...
Economic pressures are also building in West Pakistan. So far, the Islamabad regime has been able to muddle through fairly well. The real crunch will come in a few months. Pakistan is spending almost 55% of its fiscal outlay on defense, and the cost of military operations in the East alone runs to $60 million a month. One observer estimates that the 3,000-mile route around India that Pakistani planes must take to supply forces in the East is the equivalent of a supply line from Karachi to Rome...
Fear of Strikes. The immediate crunch will come on the Pay Board, which is composed of 15 members representing labor, management and "the public" (five members each). Coal miners and East and Gulf Coast longshoremen are now striking for raises larger than the 5% to 6% increases that the White House has hinted should be the golden mean during Phase II. Last week employers made a tentative offer of an 8.3% raise to the coal union. The Pay Board has legal authority to veto any settlement that high, but it would do so at the risk of prolonging the already...
...rain, which the town had seldom heard in recent years. Turning out the mercury vapor lamps helped little; the crickets invaded lighted houses instead. Turning out indoor lights meant a darkness in which crickets suddenly lit on eyes or mouths or necks. Worst of all was the sickening crunch of crickets underfoot and the unending chirp-chirp-chirp of their monotonous serenade...
Sometimes the crunch is just physically painful. Many districts have found themselves unable to afford the required matching payments for the federal school lunch program even in areas where the school lunch is the only solid meal a child gets all day. In such circumstances, teachers find ironic the Department of Agriculture's newest radio pitch for the lunch program, which reminds citizens that "you can't teach a hungry child...