Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adults who complain about the noisome clutter of commercials on television might think themselves lucky after watching programs beamed at children. American youngsters are beguiled, bullied and often bamboozled by a fury of hard-sell promotions featuring vigorous pitchmen like Captain Crunch, Tony the Tiger and Fred Flintstone. On Saturday mornings about half of the nation's children aged two to eleven watch television cartoon shows. The National Association of Broadcasters' code allows these nonprime-time programs to be freighted with up to 16 minutes of plugs an hour; on prime-time features for adults, the limit...
...give up the helm while the university was being shaken by widespread unrest and was still developing more responsive and effective procedures for governance." Though Princeton students are still protesting against the war and the school's involvement in Government research projects, Goheen is convinced that the big crunch is over and that his major reforms are well under...
...Hill sites for low-income and student housing have been temporarily shelved, the Treeland-Bindery project for Faculty-student housing is just beginning to get underway. Although the low-income projects are essentially good ones, it is naive to think that they will come anywhere near solving the housing crunch. Particularly foolish is the conception that more Faculty-student housing will somehow eliminate student pressure in the housing market. And it is patently absurd to use up 1.6 more acres in the Riverside area (as in the Treeland-Bindery site) for more student housing, when it will neither eliminate Harvard...
...Britain's spiralling inflation could bring on a financial crunch of such serious dimensions that the pound may have to be devalued again," the Honorable Lord Wilfred Brown, Minister of State to the Board of Trade in Harold Wilson's Labor government, told reporters Wednesday after addressing a Business School audience...
Late and Broke. The development problems quickly escalated beyond Rolls' calculations. To keep the engine's weight down. Rolls engineers planned to make the RB-211's fan blades out of lightweight carbon fibers. But the fibers could not stand the crunch when hail or birds were sucked into the 7-ft. fans. Last April, Rolls managers decided to keep working on the fibers but to forge the fan blades for the first few engines from titanium; this meant that they had two expensive development programs going. As time to deliver the engines ran short, Rolls started...