Word: pinches
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...Bush Administration is now in a bind. "We've come to a point," said an official, "where difficult decisions have to be made in Washington." This week the U.S. and Britain are likely to table a new resolution at the Security Council paving the way for war. In a pinch, the Administration could live without a vote, but its principal ally cannot. So unpopular is the prospect of a war in Britain--on Feb. 15, hundreds of thousands demonstrated for peace in London--that without a real effort to secure the backing of the Security Council, Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...Friday, St. Lawrence combated Harvard’s usually unbreakable forecheck by playing its forwards low, forcing Harvard’s defensemen to pinch and making the Crimson susceptible to Saint odd-man rushes all evening. The next day, the Crimson executed three different forechecking systems and stifled St. Lawrence’s breakout attempts...
...this point, it is unclear exactly where the Faculty will choose to pinch its pennies...
...last three months of 2002, there?s little question that the long-awaited recovery of 2003 is still stuck at the starting line. ?The economy is in a holding pattern because of Iraq,? says Gus Faucher, senior economist at Economy.com. ?The higher price of oil is putting a pinch on fuel-intensive industries, and other businesses are reluctant to invest until some of the uncertainty clears up.? The Fed concurs, explaining Wednesday that its interest-rate hands were tied because ?Oil price premiums and other aspects of geopolitical risk have reportedly fostered continued restraint on spending and hiring by businesses...
...take time to loosen the regime's grip on power, since Kim has already shown that he's "willing to let a lot of people die off." But eventually sanctions might take their toll, as even top government officials and members of the security services began to feel the pinch. "If the regime can no longer maintain the lifestyles of [those] people," says the source, "it could be in serious trouble...