In the second part of the debate, John Swinney told the chamber the budget settlement had been a "major challenge" so far due to a "tight financial settlement" from Westminster.
The Daycare Trust's chief executive, Anand Shukla, said councils were "failing families by presiding over a continuing shortage of high quality, affordable childcare" but said that was "no doubt linked to the tight financial squeeze they find themselves in".
And thousands of miles away in Minneapolis, home to half of America's 75, 000 Somali immigrants, FBI agents began to notice that al-Barakaat had deposited into bank accounts enormous sums of cash that had been wired to an account in the United Arab Emirates, a nation not known for tight financial controls.
The global financial crisis, tight international credit, and deflated asset prices constricted the economy in 2009.
The Commission attributed the slowdown to lower global demand, higher material costs, a volatile financial market and tight credit conditions in China.
And the reduced travel costs are a huge bonus given tight economic times in general and financial difficulties facing both schools.
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First, financial firms are facing tight regulation that has limited their ability to compete efficiently and effectively by introducing new products and services, as has been the case in the past.
Indeed, the call for increased regulation follows in the wake of every major crisis, and no call was made with more ardor than the call for increasingly tight and comprehensive regulation of the financial sector.
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Tarrin says the key steps are to rebuild confidence in the financial system and ease the tight liquidity to improve prospects for businesses.
"During the summer it was tight at times, myself and the financial director had to pull of a few miracles and call in some favours, " he said.
Beyond that, Amazon.com is the latest reminder that if banks or other sources of credit in the financial services industry ever become tight, substitutions will ably fill in for them.
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Outsourcing support to the private sector makes financial sense when budgets are tight, because there are fewer rules governing the use of workers there and original manufacturers may understand their products better than government employees do.
In the wake of the financial crisis, credit is achingly tight.
By historical standards, financial conditions are not in fact that tight.
Security and focused on money laundering and other financial crimes, built an air-tight case against nearly a dozen Con Ed supervisors and former employees involved in a kickback scheme.
In 2009, the El Dorado Task Force, a joint federal and state law enforcement effort focused on money laundering and other financial crimes, built an air-tight case against nearly a dozen Con Edison employees for taking kickbacks from contractors that performed gas line and electrical work for Con Edison on construction projects in New York City and Westchester County.
To impress lending officers, new (and established) entrepreneurs need water-tight business plans with defined, clearly articulated and reasonable financial projections.
It is difficult to measure Ecompanies' financial success, if any, given how tight-lipped the incubator is about numbers.
While things have loosened up a bit since the financial crisis began, financial institutions, such as banks, are still tight-fisted.
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For the decade or so before the financial crisis in 2007, LIBOR traded in a relatively tight band with alternative market measures of funding costs.
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Dell may be wise to avoid trying to get its costs below those of Lenovo Group and Acer, but corporate IT budgets have been under tight scrutiny over the last 12 years as CEOs struggle to meet financial targets in a slow-growth world.
Most colleges and universities do not have enough on-campus housing to satisfy demand, and when school budgets are tight, maintaining and upgrading housing can take a back seat to other financial priorities.
According to the Associated Press, one anonymous insider said the private equity firms sought to squash the deal over questions about Harman's financial health, not because of any financing difficulties in a tight credit market.
But FDR worsened the financial collapse he inherited from Hoover by raising taxes, pursuing a tight money policy and failing to rescind the Smoot-Hawley trade tariffs.
No model in the world can prevent a financial bubble if monetary policy is too lax, or a recession if it is too tight.
The post-war period of financial repression occurred under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was marked by tight capital controls.
The Global Financial Crisis took a toll at the higher end of the market worldwide and has kept margins tight all the way down, even as Australia has had to confront its own drought-borne limits on supply.
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