But it faced resistance from money-conscious member states, which instead downsized the budget to about €70 billion.
After years of expanding language offerings, suburban districts across the New York region are now cutting back on staff and instructional time, phasing out less popular languages, and rethinking whether they can really afford to introduce foreign tongues to their youngest students while under constant pressure to downsize budgets and raise achievement in English and other core subjects.
In the haphazard transition to democracy under Boris N. Yeltsin, conventional forces bore the brunt of downsizing and shrinking budgets.
It's a new era for writer-director Nancy Meyers, downsizing to a $35m budget for The Intern after a run of glossy $80m-plus 80m-pluss Something's Gotta Give andramediesiday in the mid-2000Something
He has even proposed to cut the University of Wisconsin budget, while downsizing its mission from that of higher education to that of supplying "workers," whoever they might be?
Short-term budget solutions, downsizing of sheltered housing facilities and relatives having to assume more responsibility, were named in association with such dilemmas.
Businesses are downsizing, consolidating departments, slashing budgets and making do with dwindling resources.
Strategies to cope with fiscal pressures may have a direct effect on nurses if institutions opt to balance their budgets by downsizing their nurse workforce or an indirect effect if institutions downsize services and decrease the number of hospital beds [ 16, 17].
But as the latest closely argued report from the We Are Spartacus campaign points out, the government's relentless quest to downsize the welfare budget will have potentially serious ramifications for motor manufacturers, from Luton to Longbridge.
These corporations have spread their defense manufacturing jobs throughout the country, making any congressman's attempt to downsize the defense budget political suicide.
In what can only be described as a full-frontal assault on democracy, Toronto's City Council has called three special meetings to take away most of my special powers, deprive me of crucial staff, and even downsize my budget… that part is the worst because now I'll have to rely on cocking my fist at people to get things done even more than before!
