Meanwhile, 3D camcorders are making tentative gains in the marketplace, with Fujifilm's W3 being the notable low-budget pioneer.
Essentially, though, this budget was notable for all the things it didn't say.
That is the status quo, and an aspiration supported by government policy – the most notable in the last budget was George Osborne's Help to Buy scheme, which offers loans – and from January guarantees – purely focussed on homebuyers.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of health research for the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said that although the entire industry had suffered from a decline in productivity, Pfizer's lack of breakthroughs was notable given its research budget.
Amy Seimetz was already one of the leading actresses of American independent cinema (in such films as "Alexander the Last" and "Open Five") when she wrote and directed "Sun Don't Shine," from 2012, one of the most notable entries, at any budget level, in the lovers-on-the-run genre.
The large budget and notable talent for the project made it difficult for the production company to secure directors willing to take on the series, causing 2009 to begin with a brief stir of media attention.
In a career that began in the 1940's, Mr. Boetticher became best known for modestly budgeted films notable for their male antagonists, their narrative drive and their visual beauty.
Greg Clark's city deals and tentative experiments with community budgets are notable exceptions to this typical way of thinking; much more needs to be done to give councils control over how they spend public money in their area.
In a notable exception, public school budgets took a hit in Arizona on Election Day, when voters rejected a proposal to extend a temporary 1-cent sales tax that would have raised close to $80 million annually for both K-12 and higher education in the state.
