They spend it predictably, on smaller classes, better-equipped laboratories, longer library hours and the like, usually in consultation with students.
Personally, I will bemoan the beach and park closings, the shorter library hours, the cuts in water, air, and soil conservation, and mass transit funding.
Tom Cochran, the director of the United States Conference of Mayors, which represents 1, 207 American cities (those with 30, 000 or more residents), says art programmes are typically cut first, then library hours.
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The authority has also decided to reduce library opening hours - but did approve a freeze on council tax.
The council also revealed library opening hours will be cut again - some to only 20 hours a week.
The budget-saving proposals will see library opening hours reduced and charges introduced to bring residential parking in line with other local authorities.
And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion.
It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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They spent hours at the library, paging through newspaper box scores to help them select recipients.
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Maybe a course at Khan Academy, or a few hours in a library?
The authority has said the alternative to a reduction of hours at the library would be the closure of the centre.
Our school library was open during summer school hours allowing students daily access to checking out books.
This can mean more hours studying in the library and fewer gab fests at the student union.
All museums and libraries are free, citizens can borrow up to 200 books by the Internet, while migrant workers can spend their lunch hours reading in the library without charge.
Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
The library, which has had extended hours this week (at one point more than 250 users overloaded the WiFi network) and showed back-to-back movies for kids and adults, is back to closing at the usual 5 p.m. today.
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Then, too, the sort of people who torch cars and smash plate-glass windows to get at the jewelry and televisions inside are not, we suspect, highly correlated with those most put out by the reduced hours at the local library.
Such growth will soon make even TVB's fabled library of tens of thousands of programming hours look feeble.
Tammy's days revolved around meeting the other mothers for story hours at the local public library or for play dates at their homes, where the living-room floors were covered with toys.
"I am very proud to endorse my friend and fellow Republican -- a hero -- John McCain, " Giuliani said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley California, two hours before the Republican presidential candidates were to face each other in their final debate before the Super Tuesday contests next week.
Packham, 51, has described proposals to reduce the number of hours by half at Cobbett Road Library in Southampton as "short-termist lunacy".
Additionally, Sky will launch a dedicated Disney section on its popular On Demand service, offering hundreds more hours of catch-up and library shows.
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Ekster was a student six months ago, spending long hours at the New York Law School library in preparation for a legal career.
"Expanding our partnership with YouTube provides another platform for extending the reach of the thousands of hours of archived baseball content in our library and for delivering live baseball games via the Internet to fans in new markets around the world, " said Kenny Gersh, Senior Vice President, Business Development, MLBAM.
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Full access to the entire library is available for blocks of 2, 6 or 24 hours by redeeming Microsoft Points.
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Now, with customers scanning books themselves, the library is processing more books than ever while shaving 15 percent from staff hours by using fewer part-time workers.
Dunn, who was awarded Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Different Hours in 2001, has read his poetry at The Library of Congress, and at many universities and colleges throughout the country.
When Beasla was a child, her grandfather would spend hours reading to her and other children in the kids' section of the local library, sitting on the ground or hunched on a tiny bench.
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