Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pinch is already affecting commerce and industry across wide segments of the East and Midwest. Last week the Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed that its normal 60-day stockpile of coal is down to a ten-to twelve-day supply overall, and to four days' worth at some of its thermal power plants. When the town of Braintree, Mass., sought bids recently for oil to run its generating plant for another year, none were submitted. Though there is plenty of natural gas available in the Southwest, the fuel has become so scarce on the East Coast that the Elizabethtown...
...their holdings in pension funds, profit-sharing funds, variable annuities and endowment trusts. Even people who do not have such interests have been damaged. The stock drop has affected the psychological climate ?and thus the spending plans?of all kinds of businesses. Moreover, as stockholders have felt the pinch, the decline has brought hard times to enterprises as varied as restaurants, nightclubs, gambling casinos, summer-rental brokerages, yacht builders, jewelers, liquor stores and fur shops...
...Double Pinch...
They find their old passion still alive, but time has altered their outlooks. Latha, earthy and somewhat affronted by the sudden inclusion of God in her plans, insists on making love before marriage; Every, the onetime rapist, now understandably wants to clear things with the Almighty. Using a pinch of horse sense and an ecclesiastical sophistry, they manage to work things...
...Congress. Both bills would establish a Securities Investor Protection Corp. (abbreviated SIPC and pronounced sipic) that would insure each investor's account for as much as $50,-000. SIPC would be empowered to raise an initial fund of $75 million, and eventually $150 million, from brokers. In a pinch, it could also borrow up to $1 billion from the Treasury to pay off customers of insolvent brokers; it would repay the loans by assessing solvent brokers...