Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Captain Crunch has departed from the CRIMSON sports cube. We shall all treasure the valuable prizes we found amongst the sugar-coated prose. All that remains, perhaps, are some memoirs, such as "What the CRIMSON-Yale-Daily Game Meant...
...plant closed. Moreover, GM officials note, some 65% of the plant's employees are nonwhite. Though the government decrees different starting salaries for whites and nonwhites, GM says that it makes up the difference in added benefits for nonwhites, such as free hospitalization and lower rents. In the crunch, the company feels that it can count on stockholder support...
...particularly revealing illustration of the economic crunch is the case of Mission: Impossible. Paramount Television sells the series to CBS for upwards of $210,000 per episode, plus perhaps another 10% to 15% for one summer repeat. Even at that top dollar. Paramount reportedly loses about $30,000 a week on the multistarred, action-crammed production. Mission will ultimately be a moneymaker-but only after it goes off network and the studio is then allowed to syndicate second and subsequent rerun rights. Thus, though the show may well be renewed, its producers would probably not grieve overmuch if it should...
Modern weaponry has become immensely complex. Yet, according to Just, many of the generals seem to be preoccupied with the unlikely possibility that the next war will be a happily orthodox crunch against the mechanized Soviet army on the plains of Europe. Brigadier General Samuel V. Wilson has been wrestling with the Army's role, and he confesses: "We haven't learned how to wage that which will be the most likely form of war in the coming decades"-the Viet Nam-style actions that he studiedly calls "low-intensity warfare...
...from his determination to make the sale. At the same time, the Commonwealth's African members-particularly Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia-steadfastly maintained their total opposition to handing modern arms to South Africa's apartheid rulers. Unless one or the other undergoes a change of heart, the crunch may yet come...