As budgets creak, they are losing their ability to provide a generously padded safety-net.
As budgets tighten while voters demand academic results, educators are offering modes of measurement.
As budgets balloon, studios increasingly shun anything as outré as adult sexuality.
As budgets have rocketed, curbing excess has ceased to be a financial priority.
As budgets get tighter, many services will receive a smaller proportion of the money available.
As budgets remain tight, chief information officers are looking to the cloud to reduce their overall infrastructure spend.
As budgets of long-established states shrivel, those of newer players including India, South Korea and China expand.
As budgets have allowed, police and fire departments, along with ambulance corps, have hired staff and upgraded equipment.
As budgets shrink and the ECB struggles to convince people that it can stop prices slipping, a descent into deflation seems all too probable.
As budgets are sliced around the globe, competition for military contracts is likely to keep getting fiercer, with losers increasingly challenging the outcomes.
As budgets shrink, the fate of the AIDS epidemic will increasingly depend on our success in lowering the price of antiretroviral drugs.
