budget
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The Justices made the case for their fiscal 2027 budget request of $210 million for salaries and expenses, a moderate increase from the current year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Create a budget so you can see where your money is going, and then figure out how to spend less than you earn.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The formal subject is the court's budget, including millions of dollars in extra security funding after rising threats against judges and a series of alarming incidents involving members of the Supreme Court.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Fifty-nine per cent of the BBC network TV budget was spent outside London last year, although that is down by one percentage point on the year before.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
We also learned to cook and how to stretch the food budget.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Susquehanna analyst James Friedman, who has a neutral rating on IBM’s stock, said the increase in allocation of tech budgets toward hardware is “crowding out” spending in other areas of tech.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Now, as we find ourselves deep in the season of simple summer entertaining — and still, always, keeping budgets in mind — I want to give the form a little more appreciation.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Such trends present "significant challenges", the EU said, including labour shortages, strained public budgets, and pressure on care and education systems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Since then consumers have pulled back on drinking, citing health concerns and inflation-constrained budgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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“If the answers are honest and you can afford it without destabilizing yourself, have the best time and go! Don’t let anyone guilt you out of joy you’ve budgeted for,” she told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Ultimately, it will dampen the very economic activity Congress budgeted to preserve.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
For six straight years, American companies have greenlighted fewer domestic business trips and budgeted less money for those trips than they did in 2019, according to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
They would have budgeted for lower rates, and expectations of those rates potentially falling further, but that was upended by the economic impact of the Iran war.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
At McMillan’s suggestion, Lawrence shrank his proposal to a 6-billion-volt machine budgeted at just under $10 million.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The financial media often focuses on investment choices, but it might be more important for people to learn the basics about earning, saving and budgeting first.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
He admits he "hates budgeting and always has" so he says he looks at his current account as soon as he gets paid and decides how much he wants to move into savings.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Ideally, budgeting strengthens your relationship with money. Every dollar coming in and out has a purpose,” Stettner wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Boucard started budgeting a few years ago, using an Excel sheet to track all of his expenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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