Maybe the new austerity will mean reverting to that role.

And therein lies another major problem: the Yankees' new austerity.

Yet Hollywood's new austerity seems to be more rhetoric than reality.

Mr. Bush's new austerity is acknowledged by aides to be mostly symbolic.

Her later works showed "a new austerity in form and a reduction in the number of images presented."

"In our new austerity, I am old enough to have money."

But the chance could quickly be lost under the pressure of old debt, new austerity and political blame-shifting.

And converts to the new austerity keep cropping up.

The money is likely to be granted on the basis that Greece launches a new, deeper austerity drive.

Meanwhile, for all its talk, Washington remains stingy, and localities fear new austerity.