Word: pinches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today's fiscal pinch seems tightest in the Midwest, where the tax-cut movement has been fierce. After office in 1978, Minnesota Governor Al Quie approved a $792 million tax relief program. In his budget message last month, however, Quie projected that expenditures for 1981 to 1983 will exceed revenues by $1.37 billion...
Many evangelical groups are free from scrutiny. In the monthly Eternity, Columnist Joseph Bayly complains that while worthy causes pinch pennies, cash flows freely to high-living evangelists subject only to boards led by relatives and retainers. To allay doubts, nondenominational ministries in 1979 created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (E.C.F.A.) to fix fund-raising standards. Many evangelists, including Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, have won its seal of approval; others, including Jim Bakker, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, have not. Bayly advises contributors to demand a financial statement even if a group has the E.C.F.A. seal...
...pinch yourself, it won't go away--it happened just like that. Murray, second in scoring on the team with eight goals and 13 assists, had a tough game. He forechecked effectively, superbly assisted Greg Olson's brilliant penalty-killing, played a solid right wing on the "Instant Karma" connection with Olson and center Mike Watson--but the puck wouldn't go in for him. "We hit the post three times in the last five minutes...when that puck went in"--Burke's clincher--"I just said, 'It's about time...
...pinch, Reagan fell back on describing a game he had played in for Eureka. "So when the light went on I said, 'Here we are going into the fourth quarter on a cold November afternoon, the long blue shadows settling over the field, the wind whipping in through the end of the stadium'?hell, we didn't have a stadium at Eureka, we had grandstands?and I took it up to the point in which there were 20 seconds to go and we scored the winning touchdown. As a blocking guard, I was supposed to get the first...
...helped stimulate demand for money until now, bankers, businessmen and economists expect the looming business slowdown to allow rates to fall back slight ly. Says Milton Hudson, a senior vice president for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "These current rates are going to hurt economic activity as well as pinch the demand for credit. We are expecting no real growth at all during the first quarter of 1981, and it will be a close call as to whether or not the economy will actually decline...