So what can students do to keep their finances in shape throughout the academic year?
CHARGED with the thankless task of knocking Italy's public finances into shape, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa is doing his best.
Mr Blair might not be able to force his party to vote for the tough limits on public spending needed to get the government's finances in shape.
Traditionally, the fund has been seen as siding with those who believe licking the public finances into shape is really just about cutting spending.
It has not been an industry town in the sense of New York, which media and finance have shaped for well over a century.
Like other countries that have the euro as their currency — such as Ireland, Portugal or Greece Spainin suffered as the government imposed harsh austerity measures in order to get its public finances into shape.
Adorned with an array of extravagant buildings – including a glass pyramid, a Disney version of the White House and a finance ministry shaped as a dollar bill – Astana can be a bizarre pace to visit.
"It's all well and good getting first-time buyer finances in shape, but it will amount to hollow words if there are no properties available for them to buy, and if competition continues to push house prices higher and higher".
Standard Life has set aside almost £400 million to pay policyholders but no further funds will be provided because, basically, the insurer has decided it cannot afford this at a time when it is trying to get its finances into shape for a stock market flotation.
Far from being some weird, thoroughly sex-minded exception to an indulgent rule, public interest in Vaz's alleged involvement in prostitution surely accords with a growing expectation of openness from – or refusal to be lectured by – MPs whose personal sympathies, as well as personal finances, can shape legislation.
