Charlie was just disappointed he couldn't contribute to the mass apple-biting moment: a wobbly tooth meant he couldn't crunch on his apple properly.
Don't let the oil crunch catch us out in the way that the credit crunch did.
"I am doing an Asian-Mexican sushi chain that isn't hurt by the credit crunch since they are doing this out of the checkbook, " Cisneros told me.
In a research note to clients Monday, Credit Suisse First Boston noted that Delphi's bankruptcy, unlike past filings of most suppliers, wasn't spurred by a cyclical cash crunch that prevented the company from investing in new product launches.
The area hasn't felt the full impact of the power crunch, like the state's northern half, but that has not stopped a flow of calls to Los Angeles' top utilities for renewable energy.
But that hasn't stopped investors believing that it will ease the crunch for Eurozone governments under pressure.
But watching the Greek crisis grind toward its umpteenth "crunch point", you can't help wondering why we hear so much about the country that's been desperately trying to win the markets' confidence for nearly two years, but so little about the country that, at the height of the crisis, basically told international investors to shut up and wait their turn.
For them, the shortage of credit is not the underlying reason why the UK economy can't wake from its torpor (although the the credit crunch sent the economy into its torpor five years ago).
Another trap, more likely in these credit crunch days: One of your kids can't get a small business loan or a mortgage, so you lend him or her a wad.
Three years from now, we won't be worrying at all about the demons of the 2008 credit crunch.
It can't stand idly behind in the face of another possible European credit crunch, as my colleague Robert Peston has written about.
So SBA loans haven't been able to deliver broad relief to business owners amid the credit crunch.
The credit crunch, for instance, has hurt auto sales, so auto companies aren't building cars.
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