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and when it comes to the crunch, we probably do better trying to stick to that, than rushing off on individual impulse.

To that extent at least, the Republican, who once used to be a fiscal conservative, has less to lose in the crunch.

The president seems to be assuming that when it comes to the crunch, Republicans will drop their objections and vote for this one too.

Her father felt the crunch of the ship's collision with the iceberg on the night of 14 April 1912, and went up to investigate.

The crunch has made banks less able to lend and companies less willing to borrow, at least for a few years.

Two years on from the start of the crunch, we look at how the world has changed for your finances and ask experts whether the worst is over.

Politicians may have to turn to the nascent renewables industry to help ease the crunch.

Firms that had been willing and (despite the crunch) able to borrow for investment now seem more circumspect.

The first was that cosy links between companies are all fine and good, but when it comes to the crunch, cash is king.

A year on, the crunch continues. Indeed, recent data suggest that Europe and Japan are flirting with recession.

The crunch has lasted long enough to spawn its own publishing mini-boom, as authors have raced to give their diagnoses in print.

It opened Tuesday, Oct. 12, and already pictures and videos (documenting the crunch, crunch, crunch of the seeds) are all over the Internet.

Convincing kids that baby carrots are extreme, and that the crunch is really awesome, may seem over the top.

Ford is feeling the crunch in Europe and the U. S. , though it has yet to shut a plant in response to the situation.

When the crunch first took hold, the Aston Villa-supporting governor insisted it was not about to become an international crisis.

Curiously the crunch has not shaken faith in two currencies favoured by yield-hungry investors: the Brazilian real and Turkish lira.

If it comes to the crunch, can I rely on you to support me?

The Mayor felt the crunch of bones in his jaw, and his eyes filled with tears.

Neither group really foresaw that the crunch would be accompanied by a soaring oil price.

It says the wealthy are "weathering the crunch" much better than institutional investors, owing to their diverse portfolios.

Investors are investing overseas to escape the crunch of a appreciating currency at home.

Before the crunch, the sheer size of some institutions was an encumbrance to rational analysis.

Some $62 trillion of that were credit-default swaps (CDSs), whose supercharged growth continues in spite of the crunch.

But she has also increased her spending to take advantage of cut-price deals in shops hit by the crunch.

When the crunch ultimately came, there was a severe dislocation in asset prices.

After the crunch, the economy bounced back vigorously, often growing at a rate of around 6%, and employment started picking up steam.

we talk every time Joining elite club. Not once these missiles were in action. Most will rust out as museum pieces when the crunch comes.

Britain's record on improving productivity before the crunch was better than its neighbours'.

The ideal book on the crisis would not only tell readers what happened during the crunch and why.

However, the crunch continues to chew its way through the system.

The punch comes with the crunch: Chewing, more so than subsequent digestion, releases these chemicals.

But every producer has to cope with the fallout of the rapid collapse in crude-oil prices, twinned with the crunch in financial markets.

For drivers, the crunch will begin today, the first workday with all cars allowed back on the road.

Let's suppose I had a program that did credit card validation in the cloud, and we hit the crunch for the December buying season.

If it comes to the crunch they' ll support us.

Experienced observers of the debt market, such as Tom Jasper of Primus Guaranty, a credit insurer, think the crunch is far from over.

It's like the crunch never happened.

That suggests consumer spending will be lower and the cost of capital higher than before the crunch.

The crunch talks went late into the night as more than 190 countries attempted to agree on the best way to cut carbon emissions .

When the crunch-card turns up, a bail-out card offers a way out.

But it also meant that, when the crunch came, they had the wherewithal to spend.

Sadly, I think that has proven to be incorrect and the crunch is affecting their market as well.

It craves respect but will choose bloody repression in the crunch, as in Tibet.

and, even before the crunch, median incomes were stagnating. Meanwhile, globalisation has been rewarding winners ever more generously.

The first asset class to feel the crunch was equities.

eg. They're against our plan now but when it comes to the crunch they'll support us.

Spending cuts fall disproportionately on the less well-off; and, even before the crunch, median incomes were stagnating.

He always says he'll help, but when it comes to the crunch , he does nothing.

Yet his aggressive pursuit of growth meant that, when the crunch came, RBS had further to fall.

The crunch came when Leningrad's last land link was cut in early September.

Volvo wins the prize for statistic of the crunch to date.

Long an unexciting province within asset management, money funds have played a big role in the crunch.

The crunch point could come as early as 2011 or 2012 once surplus inventories from the current downturn are worked off.

Its effect, if any, on the crunch will be to deepen it further.

It also lessens the crunch on election day.

and, even before the crunch, median incomes were stagnating.

The crunch came when she returned from America.

That is, we have a nominally capitalist economy , but we don't trust the freewheeling private market when it comes to the crunch.

Many have packed their cases already, so that when the crunch comes, they can try to depart your planet in disgrace.

The NFL, the richest sports league in America, readily admits it's feeling the crunch.

The crunch is that we can't afford to go abroad this year.

That night, when they feed, I can hear the crunch of bone.

And that's the crunch? Because then you have to admit you don't have a job.

But the bears think the crunch has now arrived, as it did in Japan in the 1990s.

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