The city is enjoying a surge in tax revenues from a rebounding economy, but its budget is increasingly strained by higher costs for Medicaid, employee benefits and interest payments on its debt, a state fiscal monitor reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, its relationship with its Arab citizens is increasingly strained, the occupation of the Palestinian West Bank seems destined to continue indefinitely, and both Arab populations are growing so swiftly that Jews could soon be a minority west of the Jordan River.
The sheer volume is increasingly straining the foundation of the region's success those trusted and flexible networks of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, suppliers, lawyers and other service providers.The venture capitalists at the centre of the networks are feeling the strain most.
Rising demand of ophthalmology care is increasingly straining Malaysia's public healthcare sector due to its limited human and financial resources.
Among those arguing for a change in course was Peterson, whose partnership with Schwarzman, perhaps inevitably, was increasingly strained.
The number of college students who come from low- and middle-income families is growing, state higher education funding is being squeezed and college budgets are increasingly strained.
The Prime Minister's suggestion will anger the Lib Dems at a time when relations between the Coalition partners are increasingly strained.
The head of the General Accounting Office warned today that the Securities and Exchange Commission was "increasingly strained" because it did not have the financing to do its job while its workload has been rising.
Relations between the US and Pakistani intelligence have been increasingly strained this year after the arrest of a CIA operative, Raymond Davis, in Pakistan and the revelation that Osama bin Laden had been in hiding near Islamabad.
But good will doesn't extend to every corner of the neighborhood, especially when most of its 200,000 residents are renters and relations between tenants and landlords are increasingly strained.
The selection is likely to further undercut the once historic alliance between the Liberals and the Democrats, which has been increasingly strained since the Liberal Party began supporting Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1989.
