Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will prosper, because he expects the barbarous metal to rise and rise. The Arabs, he notes, are pushing up the price by putting so much of their new wealth in gold. He is less enthusiastic about big gold coins than small ones, which are easier to barter in a pinch. He thinks that silver has even more potential for gain because it has not yet risen as much as gold, and within two years there will be a shortage of silver for industrial use. He dislikes stocks in gold-mining companies because they are taxed; he shuns real estate...
...prevent any cut at all in police and fire department budgets. The result may be, however, that towns and cities will have to cut even more deeply than feared into services like parks and recreation, libraries, public transportation, street cleaning and garbage collection. Local officials may even have to pinch themselves where it hurts most: cutting administrative staffs and such perks as travel allowances and official cars...
...daylight spreads through the harbor's amphitheater, Captain Tom DeTemple, 62, the flinty master of Anchorage, is fretting to be gone. Her chief mate, Harvey Portz, 28, is wrestling with a trimming problem. "She starts to list a little, I pinch down on it," he says in an amiable nasal twang, propping his boots on a big console overgrown with gauges and dials in the ship's cargo-control room. "She's trim by the stern now, but I'll have the draft more forward when we leave. Out to sea, I'll pull...
Brandeis, which has handed Harvard two of its seven losses this year, raised its Greater Boston League slate to 6-0-1 when freshman Mark Lunardo walked to lead off the top of the 11th and came around to score the winning run on classmate Peter Seraichick's pinch basehit to right field...
...Harvard ninth Brandeis second baseman Brian Isaac returned the favor when he allowed lead-off batter Kelley to reach on his error. Stenhouse then moved pinch-hitter Bobby Jenkins to third as he followed with a single, and then Peccerillo pushed the tying run across with his sacrifice fly to left...