Weaknesses: The budget; the owner's greater interest in seeing its other team — Red Bull — win races for the marketing value.
John Clark, a professor of sport management at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, says he is not certain average fans can equate how they manage their own budget with owners trying to claw savings out of an average N.F.L. franchise, which is now worth $1.02 billion, according to Forbes.
Jungle Ventures-backed RedDoorz enables budget accommodation owners to reach out.
After all, despite the cities' claims of tight budgets, wealthy owners have still gained access to the public purse while other needy institutions go wanting.
But now, with reduced operating budgets, hotel owners are putting off the kind of sweeping projects that were common during the bull market and instead focusing on smaller environmental initiatives that don't cost as much and may even save money at the same time.
Preventive measures "bring the overall cost of maintenance down over the years and help maintain the car longer," he added, which is important at a time when budget-conscious owners have been keeping their rides for longer than usual; according to R.L. Polk, the average car on the road is 11.4 years old, a record.
The Expos have not received a budget from their owner, Major League Baseball.
"You can do green on any budget," said Rob Moody, owner of EcoBuilders, based in Asheville.
but, in general, lends itself naturally to anything within the imagination of the designer and the budget of the owner.
"At the start, I thought I would cut my budget," Joan Burstein, the owner of Browns in London, said today as she left Nicolas Ghesquiere's show for Balenciaga.
While Pontiac's emergency manager makes drastic cuts to resolve the city's budget crisis, the owner of the Silverdome is hoping for a five-year breather on paying taxes on the property.
