But because it takes money to burn money, some analysts wonder how long such a site -- providing expensive, original reporting -- can withstand budget-minded competitors.
New York schools have withstood budget cuts of $180 million this year, and are facing more, giving a renewed urgency to the school auction season, in full swing across the city.
The recovery is too weak to push joblessness much lower than its current 8.2 percent, and too fragile to withstand the budget cuts that Republicans are proposing.
The fledgling recovery, beset by lopsided growth, will not be helped by a continuation of high-end Bush tax cuts, nor can the weak economy withstand severe budget cutbacks.
Assuming those appropriations withstand federal budget tremors in the fallout from the terrorist attacks, he said, "Now we can expect to see, in addition to the $20 billion emergency appropriation, a further shifting of federal resources to the city and the region for housing".
Times are not plush, and the European arts world has withstood brutal budget cuts over the last 18 months.
He has taken the helm of a college that has withstood crippling budget cuts and a rapid turnover among top leaders over the last several years.
In recent days market borrowing costs for Italy and Spain have risen again, after a political crisis in Portugal raised questions about whether governments will be able to withstand public discontent about budget cutting and joblessness.
The United States job market showed resilience in three reports released on Thursday, suggesting it may withstand a continuing federal budget battle that threatens more economic uncertainty in coming months.
The slow start for the economy in 2012 — an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first three months of the year — is evidence that the recovery is too weak to push joblessness much lower than its current 8.2 percent, and too fragile to withstand the kinds of budget cuts Congressional Republicans are proposing.
