It can't be justified as a necessary consequence of general belt-tightening across government: most calculations show the forestry plan would have saved little or, more likely, no money.
In most, teaching loads are higher and research funding lower; student-faculty ratios have increased; and, as a lamentable consequence of belt-tightening, more adjuncts and non-tenure-track faculty (who, not incidentally, do not have the protection of academic freedom) are hired.
In a summer of belt-tightening holidays at home, it's the perfect place for a bit of belt loosening.
In all, 13 travel firms have gone bust in the UK this year as a result of the recession, belt-tightening by travellers and the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud that threw European travel into turmoil.
This is, I think, a consequence of recession and belt tightening, the 0.7% pledge, and perhaps also a maturing of the public's understanding of the role of international charities; once held on a pedestal, now not so (pdf).
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"We decided that we wanted to have six strong shows and forgo a seventh for '09-10 '09-10aster of belt-tightening," Mr. Grove said.
Many have closed as a result of belt-tightening in local government since 2010.
The precise impact of next year's belt-tightening is tricky to gauge.
Parliament's whips may be able to force the measures through, as they did this year's belt-tightening budget.
As a concession to belt-tightening, the decision by a sybaritic German bishop to take a budget airline flight to Rome, is looking like too little, too late.
