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...increase in the number of students pursuing honors and in those studying American history has caused the crunch in History 98, which is required of honors candidates, the department's head tutor, Professor Charles S. Mater, said yesterday...
Maybe the shopping crunch is avoidable; maybe most first-week visitors really could choose classes sight unseen. Maybe it's that simple. Too had we'll never know...
...real estate industry in Cambridge took advantage of the housing crunch of the '60s and used its power to drive up rents and increase its profits. Great for them, but what about the meat packer that has to pay that rent every month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month...
...times, it was the driest of times. Devastating summer storms pounded places begging for relief from flooding, while the scorching sun broiled farmlands thirsting for rain. For the first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia...
There is speculation that if the economic crunch continues, Iraq's military leaders and party officials might band together and ask Saddam Hussein to resign. But it is also possible that the prospect of an Iraqi collapse would so worry Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states that they would substantially intensify their efforts to keep Saddam Hussein afloat...