"This is certainly not helpful at a time when public higher education is facing fiscal stringency, raising tuition by double-digit numbers," Mr. Callan said.

Nonetheless, defense and international programs have not escaped the effects of fiscal stringency.

She was unfortunately employing a dubious practice to which desperate governors and mayors across the country have been turning in these years of fiscal stringency.

As New York City rides deeper into fiscal stringency, its municipal union leaders continue to respond mainly to their narrow constituencies.

However, because of fiscal stringency no landing craft was built for some years.

That is a question that students should have been confronted with 20 years ago and only fiscal stringency is now forcing the issue.

Furthermore, the imposition of fiscal stringency is wrong at this particular time. It is not a question of whether we can live with balanced budgets.

By 1988 the Republican candidate, George Bush, was talking of blending fiscal stringency with a caring heart.

This is, at best, an awkward time for Brazil to be facing fiscal stringency.

Several Inquirer editors said the fiscal stringency provides a useful spur in the effort to set priorities.