Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing smaller financial institutions can do as effectively as the larger ones is create a frightening mess. Community Savings & Loan (assets: $443 million) of Bethesda, Md., demonstrated as much last week by getting into such a pinch for cash that it prompted Governor Harry Hughes to declare a 20- day ban on withdrawals from the thrift's 30,000 accounts. Community's , customers, who were still jittery after a statewide S and L crisis in May, had staged a run on their deposits after hearing about shakiness at the thrift's real estate subsidiary, Equity Programs Investment Corp...
...Wednesday night, as I was sitting at home reading the 1977 Baseball Dope Book, I received the good news. I was just turning to the section on pinch-hitting records by left handed batters with runners on second and third base, when the radio announcer informed me that the dreadful strike had ended...
...next Dodger, Terry Whitfield, is a pinch hitter customarily, pressed into the lineup by injuries. Maybe because he spent three seasons in Japan, his hitting theories are serenely uncomplicated. "A lot of players think at the plate," he says. "I just hack. I go up there, I see the ball, I hit it." What he will see from Gooden, if he can see them, are all fast balls, and all strikes. Catcher Carter stopped proposing anything else after Gooden shook off two curves. "If he wants to throw something you don't want him to throw," Manager Johnson has advised...
...reorganization is part of Apple's attempt to adapt to a sharp slump in the computer market. The company will now concentrate on selling machines to schools and small businesses. The pinch at Apple has brought changes in its freewheeling style. Sculley recently shut off the free fruit juice and massage treatments supplied to members of the Macintosh division...
...exaggeration. Murphy's lisping curate is straight out of Life of Brian; I waited all evening for him to say "Welease Woger!", but it never came. Rodney Hudson plays the chamberlain Boyet with liveried style and an infectious sense of fun. John Bottoms is anything but Dull as the pinch-cheeked idiot bobby, proving once again he may be the best thing going...