Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's only threat against Barber came in the ninth Chris Schindler pinch-hitting for Gaylord Lyman battled the Ram pitcher to a ful count and then drew a walk only the second free pass yielded by the Barber...
...addition, the more than 9 million wage earners covered by contracts containing cost of living adjustment clauses will also feel a transitional pinch. COLAS automatically adjust earnings to help offset inflation, and many people have become accustomed to counting on those illusionary increases in their incomes...
After Proposition 2 1/2 passed a three-to-two majority state wide the legislature voted to increase and to cities and towns, and to allow municipalities to avoid a revenue pinch by casing some of the restrictions in local balloting...
Pinchrunner Reid Nichols took third on a wild pitch by reliever. Salome Barojas and Boston manager Ralph Houk sent Tony Perez to the plate to pinch hit for Jerry Remy. With the count two and two, Perez grounded out to shortstop Bill Almon to give the White Sox the victory...
Once the defense buildup begins in earnest, this erosion of productive capacity will probably start to pinch. The backlog for aluminum forgings used in military aircraft is expected to swell from 12 months to 24 months by the end of 1982. The waiting time for aluminum powder and other components in rocket propellants, now ten to twelve months, is expected to grow longer. The delay in supplying integrated circuits used in computerized missile-guidance systems is already 80 weeks in some cases...