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These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
The Wall Street Journal explains that the rally shows that Japan's credit crunch is the number one issue with its investors.
And while Archie comics are still using the old standbys of crunch and swish , the heavier impacts of action comics have gone beyond boom and kablooie to ktoom, bdoom , and even skrakataboom for the detonation of an entire building.
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.
The franchisees fear that the new owner will wreck Ben & Jerry's commitment to 'social responsibility,' presumably by doing things like changing the name of Cherry Garcia to Bing Cherry Crosby and the name of Rainforest Crunch to Burn the Rainforest To the Ground Surprise."