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One NYT example of the spreading cash crunch: yesterday's press run of the newspaper Izvestia was halted when its printing plant ran out of money.
Predictably, Willes was nicknamed "Cereal Killer" and "Cap'n Crunch."
In playgrounds across America, young basketball players eschew team play in favor of taking on defenders one-on-one, dunking, and "taking over the game" in crunch time, because they want to "be like Mike," as the advertisements say.
Chatterbox doesn't expect Captain Crunch and his minions to understand journalism; but don't they understand how to make a buck?
USAT 's "Money" section front points to a Y2K-related panic point few have discussed before now: a possible year-end-driven gas crunch that could, in the paper's words, "make lines at ATM machines and supermarket checkouts seem tame by comparison."