Sentence examples for a steep budget from inspiring English sources

Idaho, reeling like so many other states from a steep budget deficit, proposed saving money on maintenance by closing several parks along the Snake, including Niagara Springs.

This fall, with birth rates inching up, enrollment growing and projected to grow more, the district will begin reopening some schools, even as it faces a steep budget deficit.

Like many states, Oregon is facing a steep budget deficit this year, but at least its House is perfectly balanced: it has 30 Republicans and 30 Democrats, the first time it has been evenly split.

The shift was partly a function of steep budget cuts in the 1970's, but it also reflects a change in educational philosophy.

Governor Corzine, who has tried to address the state's fiscal mess with a host of unpopular measures — a sales tax increase, steep budget cuts and an unsuccessful plan to sell the New Jersey Turnpike — finds his approval ratings mired in the low 40s, according to recent polls, territory to make any incumbent queasy.

Even at a time of steep budget cuts in news divisions, thousands of journalists will be stationed in Denver starting Monday for the Democratic National Convention, first at the Pepsi Center and then at Invesco Field.

There is considerable pressure on lawmakers to act, and several powerful interest groups in Albany are pushing for a tax increase for the wealthy as a way to forestall steep budget cuts.

And at a time when city agencies are facing steep budget cuts and a hiring freeze, a corps of temporary, federally-subsidized workers could take up the slack.

But the president's lofty ambitions have hit the reality of a Congress focused on steep budget cuts to domestic programs.

From the day he stepped into the job a turbulent two and a half years ago, he had faced an extraordinary series of crises, from steep budget cuts, layoffs and an epidemic of safety problems to plummeting morale because of accusations that China had stolen weapons secrets from the laboratory.

The vote by the rent board -- the first to be made up mainly of appointees of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg -- suggested that city officials were trying to be sympathetic to tenants in a time of economic distress punctuated by steep budget cuts, tax increases, a subway fare increase and the residual effects of the Sept. 11 attack.