Word: pinching
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Drago had come on in the seventh inning with a man on first and none out. He struck out pinch-hitter Billy Williams and then escaped the jam when Tommy Harper, running on a hit-and-run play, was doubled off first base as Bill North lined to Lynn in center field...
...said foundations have "felt the pinch of the tight economy and spread out their payments in reduced amounts...
...Harvard College Fund, feeling the pinch of the weak economy, is also in for a change in tactics. The Fund, which supplies the Faculty with 10 per cent of its unrestricted income, failed to break its $5 million goal established for 1974-75, although it did top last year's total...
...produced stable bacteria with a healthy appetite for oil. The new microbe, to which Chakrabarty gives the jawbreaking description "multi-plasmid hydrocarbon-degrading pseudomonas," can digest about two-thirds of the hydrocarbons involved in an oil spill. The new microbes have been tested only in the laboratory, where a pinch of microbes will eat an eyedropper of oil in a matter of days. This may seem slow, but it is between ten and 100 times faster than the four other strains of oil-eating microbes can work...
...year's end." Meanwhile, Chase Econometrics, a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes short-term rates could go another one to 1¼ percentage points higher. If the cost of money does indeed reach that level, it could dampen consumer and corporate spending, pinch off the fragile turn-around in housing and-at the very least-slow the economic recovery...