And the pressure can be felt throughout the San Francisco Ballet Building, just opposite the gilt-trimmed War Memorial Opera House where the company performs.
Tweeters responded en masse with ideas for how to reduce the nation's deficit: cut defense contracting, trim the war on drugs, stop giving money to Pakistan, raise taxes, cut oil subsidies.
In the years from the California Gold Rush to the outbreak of the Civil War, trim clipper ships built in the town's boat yards made speedy record runs around Cape Horn to San Francisco and back.
Freight rates have dropped sharply and sailing schedules are being trimmed, even as the war on terrorism pushes up insurance premiums.
(Hitler seems to have been forced during the Great War to trim an earlier, more luxuriant mustache — the point is that he kept and cultivated the abbreviation).
(Hitler seems to have been forced during the Great War to trim an earlier, more luxuriant mustache the point is that he kept and cultivated the abbreviation).
The most riveting of the new acquisitions is a war mask, in iron trimmed with copper, thought to have been made sometime from the 12th to 14th century.
Mr Eddington is already planning how to trim, when traffic falls during a war, without losing the ability to reap the opportunities a post-war rebound would bring.
Where previous defence reviews since the cold war have tended to trim the supposed fat of the armed services, Mr Hoon began orthopaedic surgery.
Mr. Duncan Smith, 47, a Sandhurst-schooled former Scots Guard and son of a World War II Spitfire ace, is trim, gray, balding and disciplined.
The International Monetary Fund forecast that advanced economies will shrink for the first time since World War II next year, and it trimmed estimates released just a month ago.
