Employees at the agency ask these questions: Will he cut back on social services to the poor in the coming fiscal crunch?

Since the city must match state spending on those programs, more cuts by the state would further ease the city's fiscal crunch.

"The fiscal crunch nearly devastated them," she said.

He said the city pared its services to a minimum in an effort to pull itself out of a serious fiscal crunch in the mid-1980s.

A few years ago, before the fiscal crunch, I'd be coming out in a Lincoln.

Now the state is in a fiscal crunch.

Last summer, these school districts experienced the full impact of the state's fiscal crunch when a new deficit-reduction formula took effect.

Their workloads increased as the fiscal crunch fell like the side of a mountain upon them.

The high profits are translating into higher tax revenues for the city, significantly easing the fiscal crunch the Bloomberg administration faced a year ago.

The trend began with the fiscal crunch of the mid-70's and has snowballed in the last several years.