In particular, they say that the government will loosen its purse strings and start spending again.
This promise, they hope, will be enough to excite the holders of the purse strings.
Most banks tightened their purse strings, while others got out of business lending altogether.
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Hoggard also said that the county's purse strings were tight following building work on a new stand.
So the purse strings are going to be untied to boost the downloads as much as possible.
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Business executives should understand that bad (read expensive) things happen when customers don't control the purse strings.
That way consumers--not government bureaucrats or employers--would control the purse strings, or at least a portion of them.
This marked its largest gain in four months and suggests consumers are beginning to loosen their purse strings.
Many are taking baby steps to see how far they can get shoppers to loosen up the purse strings.
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Nowadays, the purse strings are a little tighter with the Diamonds operating under the ownership of a supporters' trust.
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Norquist may have had influence over the direction of super PAC funding, but he didn't hold the purse strings.
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And we've got to work through that process because Congress ultimately controls the purse strings in creating new facilities.
Loosening the purse strings did not mean abandoning the frugality that was the clearest consumer trend during the recession.
Although much can be done in this fashion, Congress's control of the purse strings will check his domestic agenda.
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He also loosened the purse strings for manager Martin O'Neill The club improved and topped out with a sixth-place finish.
Because government departments in London control the purse strings, they also like to keep track of how money is spent.
As optimism slowly returns, we expect enterprises to loosen their purse strings more and invest heavily in their network infrastructure.
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Beyond the influx of reconstruction funds, the disaster has helped open the purse strings of people in the afflicted areas.
Mr Habibie is in a good position to resist this demand, not least because he controls the government's purse strings.
This has already led to a swift tightening of purse strings by shoppers and a wave of discounting by companies.
Analysts say Mr Correa could fall quickly from grace if he is forced to tighten the purse strings after the election.
Because they do still control, to a large extent, the purse strings.
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As optimism in the macro-environment slowly returns, we expect enterprises to loosen their purse strings more and invest heavily in their network infrastructure.
However, Wetherspoon is the latest in a long line of leisure companies to warn on slower sales as consumers tighten their purse strings.
Now the government holds the purse strings for business in health care and banking and they can heap huge losses onto industry participants.
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Because of that structure, New York is a state where the governor's power can be limited largely to control of the purse strings.
The two reports were noteworthy because they showed that after years of holding the line on technology spending, companies are loosening the purse strings.
If the huge rover performs as advertised, it could generate excitement among the American public and, perhaps, the politicians who hold NASA's purse strings.
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Chalk it up to fierce competition and customers' continued refusals to part with cash very easily, even as they loosen the purse strings a bit.
He cannot loosen the purse strings for fear of prompting inflation.
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