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There has been a huge increase in the number of people interested in becoming teachers since the start of the so-called credit crunch.

Retaining older staff has also been a challenge for companies trying to avert a labor crunch.

After holding its own against the U. S. dollar throughout the financial crunch, the British currency could be in for a prolonged pounding.

Consumers in the wealthiest nations are struggling with the consequences of the credit crunch and with the soaring cost of energy and food.

Mining firms' shares, which plummeted in response to the credit crunch, have perked up a lot since the beginning of the year.

The goal doesn't seem too daunting and will allow you to begin developing the habit without too much of a crunch on your budget.

She made a bet that she could defy the credit crunch and live on just one pound a day for a year.

The company was a leader in creating and marketing some of the exotic securities that have been at the heart of the credit crunch.

It did not engineer this credit crunch to force low-wage, low-margin companies out of business. But that may be the upshot.

The credit crunch does not seem to have affected confidence in private equity in Asia.

Some of the newer houses were built just as the credit crunch began to bite, and voters are anxious.

Kiyohiko Nishimura, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, said he feared a "widespread credit crunch" .

And a by-product of the credit crunch seems to be an overdue market re-evaluation.

There has being a huge increase in the code of men interested in becoming tutors since the start of the so-cwhichleed credit crunch.

During the credit crunch, Brazil was one of few emerging countries to enjoy continued net inflows.

Despite the fiscal crunch, many fathers welcome the new sense of proportion that tends to accompany their outlook shifts.

When a stone falls into a pond, the ripples persist for a while. The credit crunch was a whopping great boulder.

Otherwise, he explains, the ensuing credit crunch would have blocked the project. But he says banks seem ready to lend again.

With the credit crunch squeezing hard, many of us are trying to make our pennies go a bit further.

But the credit crunch has made people like Julia Scott, 31, reevaluate how much she's comfortable owing a mortgage company.

Peter Kendall, the NFU president, welcomed recognition of the pressures on farmers, which he said had increased during the credit 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.

He was one of those players who seemed destined to go deep at majors and beat the top two here and there, but not deliver at crunch time.

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

The clean-technology business, which slumped following the credit crunch, seems to be recovering.

ALMOST a year has passed since the credit crunch burst into the public consciousness.

But the credit crunch sucked the wind from its sails, sending spreads soaring and triggering a round of cancellations among issuers.

Until this week the politicians trying to tackle the credit crunch had done little to restore this essential ingredient.

Financial innovation has a bad reputation at the moment, because exotic derivatives were one of the causes of the credit crunch.

Needless to say, this is a pretty important job, and you're on a bit of a time crunch.

I've seen many projects where the team thinks they are going to crunch for just a month and then ends up crunching for close to a year.

It could have been Credit Crunch Round Two. There was bound to be relief at avoiding that.

I realize it seems odd to say that of events characterized by panic, a credit crunch, slowing growth and falling stock markets.

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

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

All the memories of my youth speak to me as I walk, just as the seashells crunch under my feet on the beach.

Today, I got out of the shower and felt a crunch under my foot. I lifted the bathmat thinking it was a loose tile. It was a mouse. FML.

He explained to me that drug dealers are the perfect gurus for a recession or credit crunch.

It had also witnessed a surge in the number of foreigners buying properties. But how had this been affected by the credit crunch?

Some women are trying to make sure they divorce before the credit crunch bites to save their homes from debt collectors.

The credit crunch has undoubtedly had an effect onconfidence but so far it has not been catastrophic.

Holding and bullying Durant, Bryant used his star status and the reluctance of officials to call crunch-time fouls to his advantage.

But in his own way, Mr Cameron has been a victim of the credit crunch and the downturn too.

China is one of the few large economies whose banking system has not been crippled by the global credit crunch.

This month many players will be dusting off their clubs for a new season for the first time since the credit crunch began to bite.

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.

Analysts said Russia was experiencing a liquidity crunch of the type that has affected western markets for more than a year.

Bryant has been a career FT shooter. James has not been truly reliable with his FT in crunch time.

Nineteen percent of those surveyed said they faced a crunch, down from 22 percent a year earlier, and less than half the figure in 2006.

The credit crunch is now approaching its most dangerous moment for ordinary businesses up and down the UK.

The other is the credit crunch which means an end to cheap loans for an economy that had become used to a flood of petroroubles.

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

'There are growing concerns that we are going back into a credit crunch, ' he said.

And low prices have chilled investment in production and infrastructure, which will lead to a supply crunch once demand returns, he said.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the fireman in previous financial crises, has been a bystander during the credit crunch.

So far Europe's economies have proved surprisingly resilient in the face of the credit crunch and an American recession.

Surviving the year-end cash crunch is always tough. This year, it's going to be even tougher.

Thus the growth in US household indebtedness that led to today's "credit crunch" is a direct result of the global imbalances.

The direct result of these scrambles is a credit crunch and a squeeze on aggregate demand that is forcing Europe into recession.

But, just as Napoleon's run of victories ended at Borodino, Mr Greenspan's ran out in the credit crunch.

Global banks have lost more than $300 billion from write-downs since the housing slump evolved into a full-blown credit crunch.

The credit crunch, weakening economic conditions and tighter visa rules add up to a terrible confluence of bad news .

FOR many left-wingers, the credit crunch was proof that markets do not always know best.

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

You know people like matt have the patience to crunch the numbers, but you know me, I need this grandeur and spectacle.

One of the oldest condiments known to man, sesame seeds can add a nutty, nutritious crunch to any dish.

More likely, the system still faces an old-fashioned banking-sector crunch that usually occurs in a recession.

Although they tended to buy AAA-rated paper, that designation is not as reliable as it used to be, as the credit crunch has shown.

Some people have commented that the royal wedding was "an opportunity to escape the financial crunch, even if only one day. "

So why are global stockmarkets, after a wobbly January, acting as if they had barely heard of the credit crunch?

But now this place like New York and London is grappling with the worldwide credit crunch, and its economy is in a technical recession.

He said Britain would now endure 18 months of falling output as it felt the full impact of the credit crunch.

Mr Abdelnour believes that the credit crunch will serve to benefit the bank's regional expansion strategy.

She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light.

The access to Wall Street capital provided a ? nancial jolt to an industry that still had not fully recovered from the credit crunch.

Now that the fallout from the credit crunch had spread worldwide, the researchers said, there has been a "flight to safety" .

"Expect your protein to be a bit more moist and tender, with less crunch than usual, " says White.

Take a vacation, even if it's only a long weekend or, in a crunch , an afternoon off.

Around the globe, major stock markets are suffering from the credit crunch arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States.

You believe that you are more motivated when in a time crunch, or that you move faster under pressure.

As the cash crunch grew more severe, firms began to pay double or triple digit annualized rates for short-term, uncollateralized loans.

I had been assisting the department during a crunch period of being very short - handed, and was watching everyone get close to burn -out .

I wrote my own book on how to survive the credit crunch, The Long and the Short of It, published this year.

Fewer new projects, as a result of the credit crunch, are also expected to reduce order intake on the mills as the year progresses.

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

When fuel prices started falling back to earth in the second half, a credit crunch and economic slump hammered sales of any kind of vehicle.

The credit crunch brought to a halt some of the country's biggest new casinos and large parts of the new Cotai strip are silent.

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

One of the first examples was SETI@home project out of Berkley, which used spare CPU cycles to crunch data coming from space.

One of the first examples was SETI@home project out of Berkley, which used spare CPU cycles to crunch data coming from space.

For him, the two-day college entrance exam is no longer crunch time, as it is for millions of others.

IKB, one of the first lenders to collapse in the credit crunch, was largely the author of its own misfortune.

A year ago, few people had heard of the term credit crunch, but the phrase has now entered dictionaries.

Surveys of lending officers by central banks show that on this level, the credit crunch is no longer intensifying.

One of the hallmarks of such a crunch is that you can have winners and clear-cut losers.

That companies are nonetheless seeking cash deposits highlights the extent to which the credit crunch has hobbled fund-raising.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner has walked away from crunch debt ceiling talks at the White House with US President Barack Obama.

Shares of Wachovia slumped early and ended down 27% as investors looked at it has the potential next victim in the credit crunch.

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

However, China did not suffer a liquidity shortage and credit crunch. Its monetary multiplier has been more or less stable.

Anda by- product of the credit crunch seems to bean overdue market re - evaluation.

"Overall what you see right now is not a credit crunch, " says Carola Schuler of Moody's, a rating agency.

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

Mitch: She was a graphic designer, but due to a budget crunch, she was laid off.

August: the credit crunch. America's housing-lending crisis emerged during the summer and is still unfolding.

What explains this combination of a "credit crunch" in the US with soaring commodity prices and rising inflation across the globe?

In the run-up to the credit crunch, there was some appallingly stupid and greedy behaviour by bankers in Britain and elsewhere.

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

Chairman APTMA said the textile industry is already facing financial crunch, leading to bankruptcies in the industry.

Hungary was the first European Union member state to receive international financing to avoid bankruptcy during the global credit crunch.

This could be the beginning of a massive global credit crunch.

The move comes as Islamic banking continues to see strong growth, in defiance of the credit crunch.

And if you think the credit crunch is bad, then just wait for the impending 'climate crunch'.

This should provide abundant entrepreneurial opportunities for tech firms able to crunch the data and manage new government contracts.

Equally worrying is the fragile state of consumer spending, a drag on the economy ever since the credit crunch began last summer.

Rich-world trade has recovered from the trough too, though it has not yet made up all the ground lost since the credit crunch began.

Cutting corners is generally not good practice, but in an impossible crunch, the half-cup speedster might be the person for the job.

To determine if this is the solution to yourtime crunch, add one hour to your nightly rest for a week.

Recession has only delayed the looming energy crunch (see article). How did Britain end up in this mess?

The company said the liquidity crunch in China offers a "golden time" for its expansion in the nation.

Big crunch, you know, it's gonna be quite a show.

as it looks like the credit crunch may be around for some time.

The financial-services giant was, of course, one of the first to be hurt when the credit crunch arose.

So many Britons are seeking advice on how to tighten their belts, as it looks like the credit crunch may be around for some time.

New York's authorities estimate that the city might have lost some 140, 000 finance-related jobs to the credit crunch.

To understand the problem, you need only look at the UK economy before the credit crunch began to bite in the summer of 2007.

Plunging housing markets and the credit crunch have put paid to all that.

China raised its reserve ratio on a day when global markets, including China's, fell sharply amid concerns of a global credit crunch.

Check that the seatbelt buckle is not resting on the child seat frame (this is known as 'buckle crunch').

Older industries crunch data with just as much enthusiasm as new ones these days.

During the credit crunch, they have had more flexibility with capital and liquidity than their private-sector counterparts.

The elegant right-hander's versatility made him a formidable adversary in crunch times.

Credit crunch prevent the potential state run enterprise buyer from get loan from the bank.

However, two decades ago there was nothing like the current global credit crunch.

Cutting sleep for a day or two can help in a crunch, but it doesn't last.

That would be lower than recent overnight borrowing rates of more than 5% for many issuers during the worst days of the credit crunch.

If the credit crunch continues, the residents of Jefferson county won't be the only ones holding their noses at the stink.

Bespoke money management solutions have become increasingly appealing for investors that have been hit by the credit crunch.

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.

It would then use the capital to lend to businesses that have been unable to get the funds they need because of the credit crunch.

The endpoint would be a banking system more intent on shedding assets than assuming them, an event commonly termed a credit crunch.

The Republican candidate for the American presidency thinks that "fair value" rules may be " exacerbating the credit crunch" .

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

Many are smaller companies hurt by the credit crunch as they continue to have difficulty obtaining loans.

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

The ECB's auction may make a credit crunch less severe, but it is not enough to avoid one.

One obstacle to a breakup is whether the credit-market crunch has reduced the number of potential buyers.

And big studios and independent outfits are sharply trimming their film output in response to the credit crunch and a faltering DVD market.

They have been woefully short of it since the credit crunch.

At best, the result may be a credit crunch that leaves businesses unable to get loans and invest.

A more controversial argument on energy's role in the credit crunch could go like this.

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

And about half of that power is spent not to crunch data, but just to cool the equipment.

"A lot of near-market scrap has already been recycled during 2009 during the recession and credit crunch, " he said.

Today, some sources of funding that might help you and your Baby Boomer business through the credit crunch.

The Grid lets centres around the world crunch the numbers as soon as they come out of the machine.

Crunch time for an international agreement to tackle global warming is only weeks away.

Then when it comes to crunch mode, we're able to pick up where those big places are or fill in with any late edits or changes.

Professors Wilkinson and Pickett crunch the numbers and show that the same relationship holds true for a range of social problems.

Rafael Benitez has admitted Liverpool face an 'important week' as they gear up for three crunch fixtures.

To put these moves into context, before the credit crunch European triple A mortgage-backed debt was yielding spreads of less than 10bp.

The credit crunch coincided with new restrictions on Chinese tourists to Macao, the only part of China where gambling is legal.

If the child seat has an 'alternative belt route' for use with shorter seats belts, see if this route avoids the buckle crunch.

This growth is not likely to be seen at discount stores; their customers are feeling the credit crunch.

The credit crunch would have made it hard for BHP to service Rio's debts in addition to the ones it would acquire during the takeover.

And though its financial system remains largely insulated from the credit crunch, China clearly has problems of its own.

WHEN the credit crunch hit a year ago, the pessimists predicted a global recession.

Now, after a year to crunch the numbers properly, the more sobering reality is sinking in.

Never Never Disagree Never never disagree with a shark beneath the sea, lest you feel a sudden crunch and discover you are lunch.

The fall-out of the credit crunch saw big banks disappearing or forced into panicky mergers with erstwhile rivals.

PetroChina won't have problems raising funds in a crunch, thanks to its government support.

Silverstein, hit by the credit crunch, recently asked the Port Authority for help in financing the towers, and was rebuffed.

Great abdominal crunch. Legs up, working the full range of the abdominals. Come right down. We got a misbehaving pillow, take it down.

Newspapers are full of stories about which of the big economies will be first to dip into recession as a result of the credit crunch.

In America the consequences of this credit crunch are being mitigated, at least for large firms, by the ability to tap the bond market.

Refiners often find themselves in a real crunch to try to push more n and more product through existing units.

If the trend toward high-speed careers continues, child-rearing might eventually shift back a few years to avoid the new crunch.

The figures confirm growing fears that the housing market is starting its second slump since the credit crunch struck three years ago.

Ah, sure, the chutney is actually made up of a combination of Cap'n Crunch and Pop Tarts, but we chop 'em up really, really fine.

Governments need to counteract the effects of the credit crunch using public spending to help domestic economies.

Perversely, the most accurate forecasts were made about 2007, despite the fact that the credit crunch was a surprise to many.

FMWebschool Inc. , announces FileMaker Smartphone application to help businesses avert the economic crunch.

But economists say a credit crunch will affect all regions of the country. Even an economy buoyed by a booming energy sector is not immune.

U. S. exports fell at the fastest pace in seven years as the credit crunch slowed economies around the world.

Nevertheless, so far they have been hit less hard by the credit crunch than rich nations were.

I was all so proud of my work and to crunch it up on the first day, I was really pissed, '' Talbot said.

That change in attitude, more than anything else, will be the legacy of this credit crunch for the corporate world.

growth, a surge in commodity prices, and against the head winds of a credit crunch.

Mother took a bite of her celery. Crunch. "It's not bad! " she whispered.

That creates all the conditions for a nasty crunch, with devaluation, possible default and recession.

"We would see a danger if prices fall a lot lower -- that would exacerbate the chances of a medium-term supply crunch. "

China is a case in point: far from experiencing a credit crunch, it has more liquidity than it knows what to do with.

All this came to an end with the credit crunch and the associated collapse of bank lending.

As turning points go, the next four crunch games in 11 days are crucial to redressing the balance of a season that has dumfounded Anfield.

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

Back in the credit boom, most bankers and macro economists forgot that basic point but the credit crunch has rammed it home.

We abandon the car in the snow, crunch the rest of the way on foot, to a shelter for trafficked women near Pitesti, north of Bucharest.

Big bang, big crunch, you know there's no free lunch.

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

With debt burdens lifted, it was hoped that banks and other financial institutions would be strengthened, and the credit crunch would ease.

Despite massive injections of taxpayers' cash to restore lenders' balance-sheets, it will be a while before the credit crunch ends.

You are right to identify a crunch in investment as the main risk that could cause a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

The SNAP of a potato chip, the crackle of a breakfast cereal, and crunch of celery are textural characteristics, but we also hear them.

And on the very largest scales, there may be enough to "close" the Universe, so that it will ultimately re-collapse in a Big Crunch.

If falling prices raise the rate of default, that could in turn worsen the credit crunch, putting yet more pressure on prices.

War is expensive and during the credit crunch everything to do with war has got more expensive, with the possible exception of fuel.

The funds' collapse, which cost investors $1. 6 billion, was the one of the first public signs on Wall Street of the looming credit crunch.

but at the end of that period, it was crunch time.

Yet the Diavolo have other pressing concerns too, as they welcome Juventus in a Serie A crunch match on Saturday evening.

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

He told bankers not to return to the practices of two years ago, before the credit crunch began.

Fortune's wheel may deprive happiness and lives, but cannot crunch spirit; it may strike down the will, but can never conquer it!

Too many voters now believe that the credit crunch has proved that globalisation is bad for you.

Our applications take in massive amounts of information and crunch it with the power of the microprocessor.

We'll get to that in a second, but the other way to shed some light on the issue is to crunch a few numbers.

It was first announced in June 2007, at the tail-end of a private-equity boom and at about the time that the credit crunch started.

The credit crunch has had a less dramatic impact across the euro area than in either Britain or America.

But the real crunch could come in the hot summer months of July and August when Japanese usually crank up the air conditioning.

He told Congress that financial markets were "working well, normally" and dismissed fears of a liquidity crunch.

For most of the last year, as the credit crunch squeezed economies around the world, China seemed to be sailing through almost unharmed.

ANZ, one of Australia's biggest banks, observed that the "credit crunch in Europe is spreading to Asia and it will spread here too" .

In the meantime, a domestic credit crunch and the prolonged global economic slowdown are about to throw the eurozone back into recession.

The extra funding came as the interest rates at which banks lend to each other rocketed - as they did at the start of the credit crunch.

The likelihood of a credit crunch, though not its exact form, was in fact well forecast by the regulatory community.

When international borrowing seized up last month, the region found itself stuck in its own credit crunch.

The last thing you want to do in a global credit crunch is go around and basically tell people to tighten, tighten, tighten.

The glut of industries on the block, coupled with a global credit crunch that limits the resources of prospective buyers.

But with so much volatility , experts say the final curtain is unlikely to drop on the global credit crunch any time soon .

Just as the collapse of Lehman Brothers deepened the credit crunch in the west, it also seemed to cause a sharp jolt to confidence in China.

The housing bust, the credit crunch and a weakening labour market have dragged down domestic spending.

And right now these issues are becoming critically important for Wall Street and the City, as the credit crunch deepens by the day.

Spikes in workload demands for the retail industry are usually predictable (like Christmas buying crunch season).

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

Crunch. "Yes, it is good, " he said, looking surprised.

If, for example, the company is in a cost crunch, talk to your boss about how you can help it to save money.

And if Europe's crisis leads to another credit crunch, then that could be a serious short-term blow to the market.

When the Christmas buying season crunch hit, the system detected higher workload demands exceeding threshold levels.

For the moment this is compensated for by higher trading volumes, but a credit crunch might put an end to those.

Like plenty of other investors, executives at financial firms haven't been good at calling bottoms during the credit crunch.

In a vicious temporary slump, driven by a credit crunch and the collapse of global spending, such subsidies make short-term sense.

The credit crunch and the global slowdown's hit to oil prices have left the economies of the Persian Gulf looking unusually shaky.

It was the credit crunch that ushered the funds into the limelight.

Ms Chan attributes the underperformance to the liquidity crunch, when small caps underperformed "disproportionately" .

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

But when all those factors are put together and the economists crunch the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one.

Economists say a global credit crunch helped push the United States and much of the world into recession.

Tempting as it is to crunch agencies together to remove gaps, some checks and balances between regulators have merit.

When the Christmas buying season crunch hit, the system detected higher workload demands exceeding the threshold level.