They calculate where best to berth incoming ships and how to load or unload them as quickly and efficiently as possible, crunching a job that used to take five people 12 hours into a three-hour procedure, Mr. Ong said.
Power projects are also targets, increasing fears of a possible energy crunch.
In these days of sophisticated databases it is possible to crunch numbers and find out not only who gives how much, but where they live, in what ZIP codes -- even in what buildings.
So despite worries elsewhere, including signs of a possible credit crunch in China and fears of a French recession, the FTSE 100 finished at 6606.58 yesterday, up 21.88 points on the day and more than 166 points on the week.
Space division multiplexing (SDM) is a promising optical network solution with the scaling potential to overcome the possible capacity crunch problem in backbone networks.
Since 2008, U.S. companies have been keeping an "unusually" large amount of cash on hand because they're concerned about another possible credit crunch.
It's possible that, when crunch time comes, regulators won't have the guts to declare a big bank moribund (although in September 2008 regulators had no trouble doing that with Fannie and Freddie, Washington Mutual, and Lehman Brothers).
Press down to make sure as much crumb is coating the egg as possible – for extra crunch, try double-dipping in egg and crumb for a really substantial bite.
Users enter their start point and desired destination and the system crunches possible routes, considering factors such as speed and price, and presenting a series of options covering different transport modes and spanning the entire journey.
Cooking oysters has always seemed like a waste of carbon to me so my hopes are low, but they are rescued by what Thompson calls the "right mucosity" and crunch made possible by the searing wok.
