It's encouraging that we have some sort of budget, but the economic ignorance continues in Congress.
Instead, it has a United Nations agency all to itself, and is on the receiving end of the sort of budget normally devoted to fighting small wars.
Taro Aso, the finance minister, has proposed the sort of budget stimulus he implemented as prime minister in 2008-09, atheheightght of the global financial crisis.
Better still, it's British and made for the sort of budget – $5m – that wouldn't pay for half a Transformer in Hollywood.
"On the commercial side we would want a situation where the sort of budget you would need to be competitive would be sensible," he added.
Some colleagues in the newsroom anxiously wanted to know if the editor had mandated a shortened workweek because of some sort of budget restraints.
The commission's vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former House member from Indiana, said the commission was considering what sort of budget the new office would need.
Mr. Malas has called for a softening of the harshest austerity measures but otherwise has promised to stay the course with the sort of budget-slashing measures advocated by Germany that have led to deep recessions in other European countries.
The wineries of Napa Valley, points out Clifford Scott, an experience marketer based in California, realised that they were too small to afford the sort of budget needed to reach their dispersed customers.
"They need to have some sort of budget and a general concept of how much they need to get through each period, and what large payments need to come out," he said.
