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...produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy and a boom in defense orders could create the biggest industrial-demand crunch we've seen since 1941." Though the skills squeeze is hitting just about every sector of industry, the most worrisome shortages are looming in the machine-tool trades. Nearly all big manufacturing firms employ skilled people who work with metal. But, more and more, large firms have come...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, says Baldrige, "grasps the jar firmly with both hands, peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth - and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion." Concludes Baldrige: "The man just doesn't like the color...
...proportion of total income provided by gifts and government grants also declined. Only miscellaneous and student sources of income increased their portion of the budget burden during the last decade. Of all the categories, student fees is the most flexible source of income, and students have felt the crunch in the form of tuition hikes above the rate of inflation. As a result, students supplied 29.1 per cent of University income in 1980, compared with 23 per cent...
...Iraq war. Scenes of terrorist violence in Italy and Spain. "There are wars you can see," a narrator intones. "And others that are devious." Japanese-built motorbikes in front of a Paris dealership make a point about trade war. A shot of Middle East oil wells suggests the energy crunch...
...crunch for this year's lacrosse team was the lack of pre-season practice time. That's what Scalise points to when he talks about the troubles of a team with ten freshmen and an unsettled line-up, a team whose biggest problem against Boston College was shooting the ball, a skill that takes time to polish after your stick's been collecting dust in the closet since last summer...