It's easy enough to understand how small indies with their limited resources may recourse to crunch in this way.
Inflationary worries are expected to send interest rates higher again (which has also muted hopes of an earnings boost from a steeper yield curve, the difference between long- and short-term interest rates).It is not in banks' interests to send their borrowers to the wall, of course, but their ability to be flexible is more limited because of the credit crunch.
"Our recent experiences at Portsmouth, Dunfermline and Hearts demonstrate that football clubs continue to attract huge interest and publicity but, when it comes to the crunch, only a limited number of potential investors have the resources and the appetite to bankroll the cost of their club's ambitions.
Credit card purchases are only luxury purchases, and when you are in a financial crunch (with a limited budget) there is no room for luxury at a time like this.
It still looks a little… webcammy, but the mobile nature of the apparatus probably means its ability to crunch data is pretty limited.
Those needs, along with the exploding growth of wireless networks and limited spectrum resources, have created a capacity crunch and high interference in today's wireless networks.
Sound was mixed through limited channels on to tape, then unspooled, crunched, trashed, kicked around the studio, re-spooled and transferred back.
"They were using slide rules to crunch numbers," said Mr. Klotz, and relying on limited historical weather data to define a worst-case flood.
In September, the restaurant brought back the beefy crunch burrito (a.k.a. the BCB) for a limited run, having been spurred by the pleas from what's known as the Beefy Crunch Movement.
It seems like a throwback to the heady days before the credit crunch: an investment promising returns of 19% a year and limited downside.
