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Recent Examples of belt-tightening
The company announced a series of belt-tightening measures and production delays on Friday, as the strike of 33,000 workers has added to Boeing’s litany of problems.
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Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
The belt-tightening plan also included the shuttering of Paramount Television Studios — which produces Prime Video’s Reacher, Apple’s Time Bandits — with shows moving to sister label CBS Studios.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
Collectively, these banks cut over 5,000 jobs as part of belt-tightening measures, PYMNTS reported.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the new 10% belt-tightening order, that means the administration must figure out a way to trim that price tag by about $586 million.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
The belt-tightening plan also included the shuttering of Paramount Television Studios — which produces Prime Video’s Reacher, Apple’s Time Bandits — with shows moving to sister label CBS Studios.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
Collectively, these banks cut over 5,000 jobs as part of belt-tightening measures, PYMNTS reported.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the new 10% belt-tightening order, that means the administration must figure out a way to trim that price tag by about $586 million.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belt-tightening
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Union has a more obvious narrative drive, but retains some of that sense of momentous austerity.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Years of deficit spending and a new Republican majority in the House cast a cloud of budget austerity over Congress.Kenneth Evans, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
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Sleep deprivation is the most obvious factor, with nothing but occasional micronaps available for several days.Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2024
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Sleep deprivation also leads to cognitive and metabolic impairments.Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Saunders and Gamble dig into the domestic privations of poverty — the lack of food and heat, the shame of wearing the same old clothes every day, the constant worry about what’s next.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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While a fair number of New Yorkers may be at home alone tonight, watching prestige-TV reruns and trying to enter a fugue state, plenty of us plan to lean into the misery (or joy) of watching the election results in numbers.Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
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The point there is that O’Brien is no stranger to the exigencies of pressure as felt at the Breeders’.Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Economic exigencies are often more urgent than a deference to the past, but Little Tokyo is trying to have it both ways.Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
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For updates on evacuation orders, see the Ventura County emergency website.Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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In an emergency stop, the Vanquish’s Brembo carbon ceramic brakes halt progress from 100 kph (62 mph) in less than 30 meters (98.4 feet), a common European benchmark for truly superlative braking.Dan Carney, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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