"This is a big picture budget making the best out of a bad situation, " aid Sujan Hajra, chief economist at Anand Rathi, Mumbai-based securities firm.
The budget-making process will be centralised, and items scrutinised line by line.
Few genres are as suited to low budget film making as horror.
He also is likely to bring a jaundiced eye to Pentagon budget-making.
That has left Jones to assemble a squad on a comparative shoe-string budget, making their march to the Cup final all the more impressive.
Doubtless they want it to be strong in operational terms in conducting international trade talks, managing the budget, making and enforcing antitrust rulings, for example.
Prime Minister David Cameron is slashing the U.K. budget, making painful decisions, because he realizes the alternative to austerity is selling his country to China.
It is shifting its main focus away from the budget andtoward making sure structural changes, such as an overhaul of Greece's labor market, are put in place.
At this very moment, the VA is operating without a budget, making it harder for VA medical centers and clinics to deliver the care our vets need.
Congress is currently in a contentious debate over the U.S. defense budget, making sure the country can handle the types of war that threatened in the 1980s.
Consolidate all government spectrum holdings under a single agency, perhaps the Office of Management and Budget, making it easier to determine which frequencies are unused or underutilized.
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But there has been limited progress towards the kind of political union - or central control of budget-making, borrowing and supervision of banks - that many would see as necessary to the eurozone's long-term survival.
Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
Or to put it another way, unless a country like France is prepared to make a much greater sacrifice (for the good of the currency union) of its own government's budget-making powers than it currently seems prepared to do, it is quite hard to paint a rosy picture for the eurozone.
Barring a constitutional amendment, it seems that the line-item veto may turn out to be one of America's shorter-lived fiscal experiments, at least at presidential level. (Forty-three state governors have this power, and it is under no threat there.) Despite its controversy, the veto does nothing to change the basic structure of budget-making.
Like in Greece he is making budget cuts as the country is heading back into recession.
Strains on public services can sorely test the patience of locals, especially when budget cuts are making it hard to maintain such services.
"Let me repeat, " Chidambaram told Parliament in his budget speech, making sure no one thought he had misspoken, "only 42, 800" people say they earn that much.
We are going to be pursuing those kinds of efficiencies in the defense budget even while making sure that our troops in the field are adequately funded.
The Dutch economy is performing poorly and is expected to shrink this year, expanding its budget deficit and making it one of the worst performing in the euro zone.
At the very least, we should give them the chance to come up with this budget instead of making indiscriminate cuts now that will cost us jobs and significantly slow down our recovery.
Investors expect a new pact will include measures to curb excessive debt by making budget discipline legally binding, which could persuade the European Central Bank to take more action to halt the selloff in debt markets.
Sticking with the ever-amusing Golden State, voters unfortunately eliminated the requirement for a two-thirds vote in the legislature to approve a budget, thus making it even easier for politicians to increase the burden of government spending.
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At a time when too many Americans are still looking for work, my budget begins by making targeted investments in areas that will create jobs right now, and prime our economy to keep generating good jobs down the road.
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Culture, traditionally the Cinderella of government departments in Rome, despite Italy's rich artistic and cultural heritage, is getting short shrift in the 2006 budget now painfully making its way through parliament with drastic cuts being forced on practically every ministry.
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Some have suggested that we go back to the tired economics of the past that got us into this mess in the first place, like making budget-busting tax cuts, turning record surpluses into record debts, and squandering assets abroad instead of investing in nation building here at home.
It said the government's budget for "flood management has been maintained in real terms over the current spending review period, making the budget better protected than in England".
When interest rates on Treasuries rise, our interest payments will grow making out budget problems worse.
Coppola started his career making low budget films as the protege of "King of the Bs" Roger Corman.
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