And so they're hoping that when crunch time comes, the U.S. will be there for them.
He and his 90-odd brokers can get their hands on the right planes at crunch time.
"The rest of the games from here on out, you know it's crunch time, " Stepan said.
Yet Kidd, the future Hall of Famer, was on the court for a longer duration in crunch time.
Crunch time, I think, will come in the 10- to 20-year time frame.
General secretary Sally Hunt said negotiations with employers had reached "crunch time".
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The Lakers immediately took a timeout and the Garden was at its loudest point of the night, until crunch time arrived later.
Yes, January is crunch time for the National Football League season.
We know from experience, though, that any genuine school reformer eventually arrives at crunch time with these unions, and either confronts them or gives up.
Manning calmly leading his troops down the field in crunch time, this time 88 yards in nine plays, to give his club the lead for good.
The crunch time will come in Estonia in two weeks, where the 30-year-old hopes to achieve the qualifying standard of 6, 109 points for August's World Championships.
The revenue miss comes as Patch is approaching crunch time.
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The councillors were due to come to a decision last year but asked for a delay - this week is crunch time for Cumbria's nuclear waste dump vote.
Urging the World Bank to take fresh action to clean up the logging industry, Greenpeace senior forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said it was "crunch time" for the DRC's rainforest.
The problem is that many firms are doing what Federer appears to be doing: going gung-ho on the more superficial and preparation work, but not aggressively following through during crunch time.
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But if there's an unofficial rule about crunch time in English soccer, it's this: As a season's worth of knocks begin to pile up, it sometimes pays to call in the cavalry.
On February 22, 2013, Frederic Mishkin, Peter Hooper, James Hamilton and David Greenlaw published Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy, an 86-page paper that predicts the Fed will stare down the barrel of a few hundred billion dollars of losses when interest rates rise.
High lending rates between banks, or a drying up of liquidity, marked the infancy of the credit crunch this time last year.
He said before the credit crunch first time buyers had to find a deposit at 11% of their mortgage, but now that figure was 25%.
Perhaps the only player who delivered on the ridiculously high standards he had set for himself in the series' opening two games was surprise, surprise James, the Heat forward and three-time MVP who is slowly and steadily chipping away at the popular, if misguided, perception of him as a not-quite-ready-for-crunch-time player.
What my husband loses in the time crunch, he gains in energy and inspiration.
For those in a time crunch, let's skip straight to the point: for PPC-6700 owners, the Mogul is a more than worthwhile upgrade.
Other issues being looked at include the effects of the credit crunch at Christmas time and teenage life, especially the way young people are stereotyped.
He says FedEx would face a similar problem with the European Commission and a time-crunch on due diligence.
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The key to making a smart choice is to take your time and crunch the numbers, just as Lily is doing.
For if workers see their real wages fall at the same time as the credit crunch is constraining their ability to borrow, consumer demand will suffer.
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