While the rest of Europe is forced to tighten its belt, Germany appears to be coasting through the crisis.

在欧洲其他国家被迫勒紧腰带的时候，德国在危机中似乎是毫发无损。

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The sites can even create a sample budget for you, but remember: The goal is to tighten your belt, not maintain the status quo.

这些网站甚至可以为你提供一个标准的预算。 但记住：记录花费的目的是为了减少开支，不是维持现状。

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Interest rates on sovereign debt soar (see chart below) when the trust in the sanctity of that debt, and the country's ability to tighten their belt while growing out of it, plummet.

人们对于此类债券以及国家缩减开支并取得经济增长的信心跌至谷底，主权债券利率飙升(见下图)。

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They could well benefit from what every private business has done over the last three years: Tighten the belt, get more with less, learn that you can run a good organization with fewer people, pay more attention to detail, and expect more from everyone.

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"It's against a backdrop of hugely successful, record investment - over 25% more today than 1997 - and the resilience within the sector we have nurtured, that we (are) now able to look to the higher education sector to tighten its belt in the coming period, " he said.

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"With experts warning that the Government must tighten its belt, people will want to know why the extra taxes they're already paying haven't delivered anything like the improvements in public services they were promised, " he said.

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