Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crunched} (kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crunching}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.] 1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. --Byron.
2. To grind or press with violence and noise.
The ship crunched through the ice. --Kane.
3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. --H. James.
Crunch \Crunch\, v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
If a crunch develops, it will not be the EIB that is crowded out of the market.
He says the credit crunch has to do with softening credit demand associated with the weak economy.
The English-language China Daily said the crunch resulted from the rising cost of making paper, hoarding by speculators who resell it for profit, and a state-ordered cut in imports.
The budget crunch occurred because the military was included in deficit reduction cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman act.
The fact that the Fed has even considered the radical change shows the seriousness with which the government is searching for ways to alleviate the credit crunch.
However, some libertarians, along with the Sierra Club's LA chapter, argue that forcing a supply crunch by not building more roads is the best way toward alternatives.
That leaves private equity and debt, and finding it won't be easy given a world-wide capital crunch and a recession-battered U.S. economy.
"We're reaping the benefits," Molitor said, "and other farmers are suffering the consequences." Farming prospects in general have improved in recent years after the worst financial crunch in agriculture since the Depression.
Like much of the rest of the country, Arizona faces what some economists are calling a credit crunch, or a shortage of loan money.
Early in the crisis, Pan Am had to cancel five flights to Europe for lack of pilots, but it avoids a lasting crunch because reduced travel leads it to trim its overseas flights by 35%.
Then came the credit crunch of 198182-a battle among demanders of credit for a limited supply of credit in a financial market in which many interest rate ceilings had been removed or substantially raised.
That tenet now seems subject to revision to fit the federal deficit crunch.
Some say it raises the threat of a consumer-induced recession. Others worry about the possibility of a "credit crunch," in which constraints on lending create a scarcity of money for investment in business, housing and big-ticket consumer purchases.
Without the money, the RTC would face a cash crunch that would virtually halt the disposal of failed thrifts after this week, according to RTC spokesman Stephen J. Katsanos.
Since the credit crunch and overbuilding combined to strangle the market, the real estate market has been at a complete standstill.
The GAO is analyzing the FSLIC's finances to determine whether it faces a cash crunch in the future.
The real crunch came in the 1970s, when several international firms opened modern five-star hotels in Copacabana.
"We are getting a more severe budget crunch at the municipal level," says James Sankovitz, a lobbyist for Marquette University.
Despite reports of reduced construction, auto and home equity credit, the Fed policy makers noted little evidence of a credit crunch in aggregate financial statistics.
Small investors bailed out of a few large junk funds late last week after a cash crunch at Campeau Corp., the highly leveraged real estate and retailing company, pushed down junk-bond prices.
Banks should pay a special assessment to bolster the deposit insurance fund, the General Accounting Office urged. But the industry said the move would worsen the credit crunch.
The crunch came with the post-Civil War Louisiana lottery, which even a Confederate hero like Gen.
Analysts attributed the situation to high interest rates and a credit crunch caused by the savings and loan bailout law and tighter lending policies by commercial banks.
But as recently as two years ago, Mr. Penser seemed headed for a debt crunch that threatened his empire.
In addition, luxury homes tend to become a higher percentage of homes sold during a crunch because wealthier people can still buy and finance such purchases.
Rather than calling on the Fed for further action, Mr. Clinton says the president should force bank regulators to ease the credit crunch by encouraging banks to make good loans at lower rates.
In addition, Nobel has made certain financial guarantees to the unit's bank creditors to help the unit out of a severe liquidity crunch last year.
Either there has been no credit crunch, or there's something amiss with HUD's methodology.
"Slowly and surely through my life, whenever a financial crunch came up, I would sell one," he said. "I'm terrible at asking for money.
But Glen said the financial crunch did not figure in Bush's decision to forgo a television effort in California.