Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPEC somehow sticks to its agreement and prices keep rising, heavily indebted petroleum-producing nations like Mexico and Venezuela would clearly enjoy a boon. The production cut would also help the oil-patch states in the U.S., which felt the pinch as the price of Texas-grade oil fell from about $27 per bbl. in January to a low of $9.75 in April. Consumers, though, would face more expensive heating oil and gasoline, and if prices continue to climb, the increase could rekindle inflation and eventually weaken the world economy...
...have survived a slump and taken a six-game lead--eight in the lost column--in the American League East. With miracle finishes like Rich Gedman's pinch hit grand slam Sunday, the home team may actually have regained the blessings of the baseball gods who deserted it so many years ago when it traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees, ending the first dynasty of baseball Boston...
White business leaders and the government would feel the pinch of the business decline, while blacks would suffer more severely from the higher unemployment. Opponents of disinvestment contend that American firms are among the most racially progressive. Their departure would reduce black influence in labor unions and on job conditions...
...runners on base when the game ended on pinch-hitter Dusty Baker's hard grounder back to Sambito on the mound...
...confessed drug users (of one kind or the other lately permissible), a British chestnut addicted only to Guinness Stout (a pint a day with his oats and carrots) and that California fresh-air fiend Ferdinand. For all of his clean living, Ferdinand drew the dreaded rail, and the pinch at the start of the stampede was so precariously tight that Shoemaker had to stand virtually straight up in the irons. With every one of his 96 lbs., he yanked in the reins magnificently to hold Ferdinand on the course. They settled down into last place...