Word: crunchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent years, a steadily increasing number of honors concentrators has created a thesis crunch in the government Department--too many students and not enough advisors to go around. The department has on occasion sent the wary concentrator to the Kennedy School of Government--where policy making analysis has become a necessary substitute for "real" political science--but a few interested students have found themselves with no one to advise them...
This week, Peterson, the department's head tutor, announced that the Government Department had instituted a major policy change to help alleviate the crunch...
...York's bond ratings tumbled to 48th in the nation, a survey ranked the state 43rd in financial management, and a budget crunch has prompted talk of tax hikes. Cuomo is only one polluted harbor away from becoming the next Michael Dukakis...
...cash crunch was deliberate, the result of new President Fernando Collor de Mello's desperate all-or-nothing attempt to "obliterate" Brazil's inflation spiral, which hit a monthly rate of 73% in February. The severe clampdown, which the President unveiled just hours after his inauguration on March 15, went into full effect last week. By presidential decree, the plan freezes 80% of the country's banking and investment accounts; no one can withdraw more than $1,200 from savings for the next 18 months. And to cement his reform, Collor replaced Brazil's latest currency, the new cruzado, with...
Military strategists complain that they have to shape plans for a decade in a situation that changes explosively from week to week. But that danger is no excuse for not beginning to draw up a strategic plan to guide the reductions that a budget crunch is forcing on the U.S. no less than on the Soviet Union. Nor should it be allowed to obscure the happy prospects now beckoning Washington and Moscow alike...