"We looked at the quality we needed, and the bare minimum that we could spend on recording the service," he said.
When combined with their steep cuts elsewhere, which reduces all non-mandated government spending to something close to zero, the Romney/Ryan vision of government is one that provides less than the bare minimum to its citizens while spending many times (see CBPP and Matt Yglesias for more) what other nations spend on extravagant and needless military programs.
Customers who bought deals overwhelmed the businesses, spent the bare minimum and never returned.
The truth is that the son has spent the bare minimum.
They've spent the bare minimum, and that's been fine, since IT has had to function merely as a "keep the lights on" necessity.
Despite the insistence by d'Hooghe, and by Jiri Dvorak, who runs the FIFA medical research center in Zurich, that soccer teams the world over must spend the bare minimum on heart defibrillators and on basic cardiovascular screening, the hidden defects in humans from time to time strike down players.
Do you spend the bare minimum, as little as possible to get your tunes?
Dr Ian Dungavell of the Victorian Society asked the council to spend "the bare minimum to keep it open" until the economy improved.
During that journey, "They worked extra jobs, spent the bare minimum, bought only used cars and furniture, did not take any vacations except camping trips, made no home improvements and cooked all meals at home".
Their austerity plan could serve as a template for anyone who needs to climb out of debt: They worked extra jobs, spent the bare minimum, bought only used cars and furniture, did not take any vacations except camping trips, made no home improvements and cooked all meals at home.
John Maynard Keynes, who developed the theory that increasing government deficits stimulate a sluggish economy, was long the guiding light of liberal economists; Milton Friedman, who said the government should limit spending to the bare minimum and blamed ups and downs in the money supply for economic disruptions, inspired conservatives.
