Word: pinching
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...with the score 3-2 and two runners on base, Curtin got the pinch-hitter Griffin...
...crackdown soon followed, and among those who felt the law's pinch were an Israeli vice consul based in New York City, Hanan Moked, 43, and his wife Ilana, 40. The couple was arrested after making a series of calls between Hackensack and Israel. Making such a call from a malfunctioning phone is considered to be a deliberate defrauding of the phone company. Moked is charged with theft of services, punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. Are officials at the Israeli consulate embarrassed by the episode? "To say the least," says Consul General...
...walk, a sacrifice and a single. He retired the side in order in the eighth, but gave up two long fly balls and a single in the ninth before shortstop Jim Pakalnis leaped for a line drive, caught it, dropped it, and then threw to first to nip pinch hitter Bob Rikeman for the final...
...prices have taken their steepest plunge ever, energy producers from Mexico City to Moscow have felt the pinch. While some are suffering more than others, no major petroleum exporter has entirely escaped the pain. A look at the economic and political woes that cheap oil is causing once mighty producers around the world...
...neighboring countries. Repaying the $9 billion foreign debt piled up by Nimeiri will prove equally difficult. In February the International Monetary Fund, citing the government's inability to repay more than $200 million in overdue loans, took the unusual step of declaring Sudan ineligible for additional assistance. The economic pinch forced Suwar al Dahab's 15-member ruling Transitional Military Council to increase taxes, raise prices on some basic foods and gasoline by as much as 50%, and devalue the Sudanese pound, currently at four pounds to the dollar...