Word: pinches
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...nine years, with no end in sight. Doesn't America have any leverage with which to persuade the OPEC nations (Saudi Arabia, the emirates and other cartel members) to reconsider their production cuts and resultant price increases? We could stop monitoring Iraq and let OPEC feel the pinch of scarcity of another precious resource--U.S. military power and the security it provides. WILLIAM J. ROBERTS Fort Walton Beach...
...that they face a challenge every semester trying to offer a variety of choices within each Core department while trying to enroll as many students as possible in the most popular classes. But that catch-22 of variety and high enrollment too often results in a fleet of pinch-hitting TFs teaching students who, painful as it may seem, would have been better off being lotteried out of the class...
...University also subsidizes emergency care for children and elderly family members through a contract with the child care service Parents in a Pinch, which provides sitters on an emergency basis to registered members...
...Parents in a Pinch is a very specialized, particular kind of service that doesn't address regular everyday daycare needs," she said. "And for the scholarships, the money is in a single pool that serves staff and faculty, and you need to qualify financially...
...McCain's was working better. Bush took it as gospel that He Who Promises the Bigger Tax Cut Wins. His $483 billion plan was supposed to trump the cautious McCain, who talked more about paying down the debt than paying off the voters. But he hadn't bargained on pinch-fisted Yankees like the man at the Nashua Chamber of Commerce breakfast who stood up and punctured the theory. "I'm tired of all this tax-cut nonsense," the questioner told the Governor. "Can we stop it, please?" To which Bush replied, "I don't believe it's nonsense...