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UNITED NATIONS--U.N. officials yesterday reported the easing of a financial crunch that threatened to dissolve the U.N. force protecting Kurds in northern Iraq from attacks by Saddam Hussein's troops...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.N. Gets Money for Guards in Iraq | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...need to paraphrase, simplify and contextualize large theoretical ideas in order to use them in a 5-7 page paper due several hours in the future. That's why we have books of "Great Thoughts," "Bartlett's Quotations" and Cliff Notes. Needless to say, in the crunch, a lot of the meaning gets lost and we end up sounding muddled...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: I Sold My Soul to Derrida | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

Whatever happens to the ant colony that has taken residence in Dunster, Operation DEAD promises to add a little crunch to house life...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

...FISCAL CRUNCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endangered Dream | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Politics, in any case, is monopolized mainly by vociferous gay organizations, gangs of neoprohibitionists and, of course, the ever resentful ecomaniacs, who have forsaken chocolate chip ice cream for Rainforest Crunch and who insist that the city's unspeakable degenerates (cigarette smokers) ask permission before they light up outside. While the city drifts, the board of supervisors issues wacky foreign policy statements. During the gulf war, the board declared the town a nuclear-free haven for draft dodgers. Across the bay in Berkeley it's even daffier: along with Fidel Castro, the city council is all that is left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Between the State | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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