Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost everyone has felt the economic pinch. The Boeing Co. has laid off 22,000 workers in the Puget Sound area since January, plans to trim its pay roll from a 1968 high of 101,000 to 45.000 by the end of this year. One of those affected by the cutback, Engineer George Wheeler, recently sold his $28,-000 house in Seattle, and plans to move into a $40-a-month apartment in his native state of Wyoming where he hopes to teach. Electronics firms have laid off 5% of their personnel in Massachusetts. William Kukers, 52, lost...
...have given Europe a "northward tilt" comparable to the westward tilt that the U.S. has experienced since World War II. But unlike the California-bound Americans, and unlike European emigrants of the past, the migrants in northern Europe have never really unpacked their bags. Strangers to the last, they pinch their pennies, save as much as 70% of their pay, and dream of the day they can go home...
...kept up their borrowing during the money squeeze; their executives simply did not believe that the Federal Reserve would hold down the growth of money supply as long and drastically as it did. Thus they saddled themselves with a debt that must be periodically refinanced. And now a profit pinch limits their ability to repay...
Badcock almost saved his shutout for he picked Varney off second base and got Kelly to ground to third base. But Steitz's throw to first was wild and DeMichele scored, cutting the Indians' lead to 3-1. With runners on first and third, pinch-hitter Mike Thomas struck out to end the inning...
Hoping to repeat its ninth inning comeback against Boston College, Harvard led off the stanza with a walk to Turco. But pinch-hitter Tim Bilodeau hit a hard grounder to short that the Indians turned into fine double-play...