1. And the budget squeeze could get tighter if revenues fail to live up to expectations. 2. Aside from the cumbersomeness of the tax-collection process, the biggest problem the IRS faces is a budget squeeze. 3. At the same time, the armed services are clamoring to accelerate major weapons programs that have been delayed by budget squeezes in the past. 4. But big departments like Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection, Justice, State and Commerce have been caught in the budget squeeze. 5. But he had to back off because the federal bean counters said such an exemption in the early years of the Roth program would cause a significant budget squeeze. 6. Huppenthal said the budget squeeze was due to an age-old mind-set. 7. Just as violence is an immediate threat to inmates and staff, the continual budget squeeze threatens the equilibrium of the jails. 8. Nowhere is the budget squeeze more severe than in Washington state, where unemployment is the second highest in the nation, behind Oregon. 9. The federal budget squeeze has resulted in a shortage of food safety inspectors and in repeated failures to monitor meat and poultry processing plants on a daily basis. 10. The federal government has promised low-interest financing for special housing for police officers, but warns that the current budget squeeze does not permit wage increases. |