Word: crunches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midterm crunch always sneaks up on us. Whether it means we're writing reams of pedantic essays or botching hundreds of exams, chances are good that this week has brought almost every Harvard undergraduate to the precipice of academic catastrophe--or at the very least, to the precipice of the dreaded B-plus. But we often forget that it is actually the week after midterms, not the midterm week itself, that is crucial to our academic success. Next week, our papers and midterms will come back to us graded. And right now, our fate is entirely in the hands...
Since he signed on with the Times Mirror empire in 1995, Willes has moved with a ruthlessness that earned him the nicknames "Cap'n Crunch" and "the Cereal Killer." He whacked 2,000 jobs by killing the New York City edition of Newsday and slicing staff at papers like the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. During the same period, the company's stock price has nearly tripled, from $22 a share...
...worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...
...much of Asia will be catching its breath. How bad is that? At the outside, economists warn that the crimp on good times might lead to a worldwide capital crunch and a massive stock-market slide. But that is seen as a remote prospect...
...dropout experience when he fell for two things: a Dutch woman who became his wife and a spicy Dutch brew called witbier (wheat beer), which became his first start-up. The Spring Street Brewing Co. was born in January 1993, and its growth-fueled cash crunch gave Klein his big vision of offering stock to his customers via the Internet...