Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Came the energy crunch of 1974, and passing drivers began to gesture impolitely. The Hermans persisted. But needless to say, things got worse recently. One night the Hermans found a note on their windshield: "The only reason I don't set fire to your car is because I'm not sure you're Iranian. Go home...
...crunch will come in January with the announcement of the 1980 budget, which will almost certainly contain some subsidy cuts. On that potentially explosive occasion, Sadat may need all of his considerable powers of persuasion to convince his people that the "better life" he has promised is still imminent...
...They lost every single new rider the gas crunch gave them," he said. "It's not politics. "It's not personal. It's embarrassing," he added...
...Look at condominium control and rent control. New housing can do something positive," Agee says. Building more housing and attracting nonpolluting industry can ease the pressure of the housing crunch and pump in new revenues for the city, he adds...
...crunch made a big front-page splash in just about every newspaper. But the Wall Street Journal, forced by its staid though successful format to use only a single column on page one for the story, had to bury considerable news inside. The paper felt obliged to provide readers with a guide, which ran on the front page...