It could be argued that, in this way, Eggers's influence on young writers coming out of the creative writing departments of the universities (and posting things on the McSweeney's website in their hundreds) is as pervasive as Raymond Carver's was in the austere, cut-to-the-marrow, sackcloth-and-ashes, "dirty realist" years of the 1980s.
The NHS and local government have only survived austere cuts by this unprecedented real cut in public sector pay.
Gone would be the days of heavy spending on economic stimulus and the military, to be replaced by austere cuts to trim annual deficits approaching a trillion dollars.
PARIS — The Greek prime minister vowed Wednesday to persevere with austere cuts in the struggling country's budget, while the leaders of France and Germany promised to support Greece's continued membership in the euro zone.
Rapidly lowering steel costs throughout the world necessitated brutal, austere cuts.
Spending cuts are necessary to bring down the debt, but they cannot be the austere cuts Republicans are proposing; deficit reduction cannot be achieved by reducing only programs for the most vulnerable.
It must surely seem "austere" to cut by 30% the pension of a Greek civil servant who was undoubtedly counting on that income to live out the next 25 years of his life.
Those sorts of austere budget cuts have not been seen in Texas since Truman was president, not even during the oil bust in the late 1980s and the recession in 2003, several lawmakers said.
A 24-hour stream of sentences and stories, spanning the canon from George Eliot to "Gossip Girl," flowed from dozens of book-loving New Yorkers this weekend who were concerned about austere budget cuts to libraries proposed by City Hall.
There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.
