He said that accountants should meet to review the system by which real estate and related assets are valued, and he urged mortgage lenders to step forward voluntarily to help credit-worthy borrowers who may be strapped for cash at the moment.
As Lynel Brown Berryhill, vice president of Brown Safe, in San Marcos, Calif., noted, "Customers increasingly have been telling us they want a safe to prevent petty theft of jewelry and cash by their help," who may feel strapped these days because of the higher cost of gas and food.
The arena may cost strapped taxpayers in excess of $400 million, and at a time when some officials have suggested selling off the holdings of the city's museum to satisfy a long line of creditors.
You can publish a newspaper by yourself, but you may be strapped for time or money in the process.
Your parents may be strapped for cash, wait for your contract to expire, you can get a new phone when you renew it.
As the new governor is still limping from his broken leg, he may not want to strap on the skis.
It looks like we may be able to strap a display to our wrists in the not-too-distant future.
Smaller insurers may also be strapped with millions in claims, said Mr. Grace, who also heads InsureMyTrip.com, a Web site that aggregates travel insurance offers.
If that extra cash does not materialize, he warned recently, the city will have to cut at least $1.7 billion -- 25,000 jobs -- and try to get vast amounts of money from the state and federal governments, which may themselves be strapped.
