Well, then you squeeze early-childhood programs, you squeeze Head Start, you squeeze education and veterans".
An overly tight monetary squeeze early in this decade headed off an asset-price bubble.
Duane Ross, the manager for astronaut candidate selection and training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the space agency heard about the squeeze earlier this year when word came down through their usual "points of contact " that only five people would be nominated by the Navy.
"I just find the squeeze, this early, to be quite vulgar," Mr. Neal added.
As an entertainment journalist by trade, my days are filled with juggling deadlines, dashing to work events, rushing home to feed my dog, attempting to schedule dates night with my boyfriend and squeezing in early-morning gym time.
Britain even recently contemplated outsourcing its entire military procurement, only to get cold feet about such a radical move.An earlier squeeze in military spending, in the 1990s, prompted a spate of mergers, as weapons-makers cut costs by joining forces.
He managed to squeeze in an early-April golf trip, but he said he spent most of it on the phone with the crisis team in San Jose.
(You may recall in his last Budget the Chancellor promised to end the squeeze a year early; that was because the projected cuts in the first four years were even tighter than previously billed).
Though Mr Obama is holding out for a bit more stimulus, the planned expiry of the payroll tax cut and the implementation of smaller austerity measures will squeeze the economy early in 2013.
Next up: Admissions Freak-out Countdown #3: The Squeeze Play - Early Decision, Budget Cuts, and No Vacancy Signs.
She had to get a bus before squashing on to an "absolutely packed" tram after not being able to squeeze on to two earlier ones, before taking the Jubilee line from Wimbledon to West Brompton.
