Word: crunchingly
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...Some of those buildings were designed just prior to the energy crunch," Goodwin says. Glass on the south side of the Science Center keeps the sunlight in during the summer, he says...
...point out that "not all blacks are bad. There are good and bad blacks just as there are good and bad in all races." Security and safety are certainly minimal requirements for the good life, so the increasing crime, coupled with decreasing police protection caused by the budget crunch, sends the middle class whites packing...
...basic strategy was to play off the opposition parties against each other in order to get a majority vote. But eventually, the Social Democrats and the C.D.S., both of which favor an expansionist economic policy, found it intolerable to support policies that they had no role in formulating. The crunch issue was a proposed $1.5 billion loan from a consortium of Western countries and the International Monetary Fund. The conservative opposition accused Soares of yielding too easily to the IMF's insistence on such restrictions as low economic growth (1%), devaluation of the escudo and other austerity measures...
...years ago, in the midst of the energy crunch, the temperature in the Houses was turned down to 40 degrees, except for special warm areas that housed tutors and students. This attempt to save on heating costs resulted in the flooding of more than 20 suites when the temperature dropped too low and the heating pipes of four Houses froze...
...might be predicted, the people who suffer most from the crunch resulting from increased health costs and increased waste are precisely those who are most in need. Because of the various disincentives inherent in the system, there is an uneven geographic distribution of health care benefits: while wealthy areas are favored, rural and inner city areas are neglected. Public funds, including tax subsidies, do more for the well-to-do than for the poor. Since, in our present system, health benefits are linked to employment, the unemployed are often left unprotected. For those who are employed, programs like Medicare...