When will Hollywood start tightening its belt on bloated star salaries and unworthy production budgets?

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And the rest of the Army is really tightening its belt a little bit as a result.

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But after having put out the fire of an imploding global financial system, the public sector is also tightening its belt.

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The government is also tightening its belt, albeit more gingerly.

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The country needed to carry on "tightening its belt" for some time into the future, Mr Clegg said, but those at the top should be asked to contribute first.

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In March Mr Neumann was one of 11 Republicans who blocked a 14% increase in the budget that pays for the various House committees: if Congress expected the rest of the country to accept belt-tightening, it should tighten its own belt, he said.

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The regime has proposed needed spending cuts, but its timing is awful -- there is not much political support for belt-tightening when people's standard of living is suffering.

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Cisco announced that it had shipped its 1, 000th telepresence unit in September after almost two years of availability (see "Tightening The Telepresence Belt").

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