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Feeling the Pinch...
...which functions best as dance music or as the soundtrack to a video, Sondheim's works reward close listening. The rhymes are breathtaking. Whereas most lyricists are content with two words, Sondheim often rhymes three, four or, in "Two Fairy Tales," 15 words. He also plays with consonance, matching pinch, punch, pauch, pouch and pension...
Feeling the Pinch...
...Commission, Harvey is just one of close to 700 licensed cabbies in Cambridge who are being forced to fight for fares because of the recession. "Ten years ago there was absolutely no problem," Anastasio says. "The money was out there to be made. We've really started feeling the pinch in the last three years...
...absorption process. Despite repeated warnings, last year's budget grossly underestimated the expected immigration, and officials spend more time bickering than coordinating policy. Various cash grants -- $7,500 for a family of three -- stop after one year, which means hundreds of thousands of immigrants will feel the pinch of Israel's expensive living costs just prior to the 1992 elections. That could produce a separate political party targeting immigrant issues...