Moreover, he has made it clear that hard decisions must be made during times of fiscal hardship.

World War I siphoned off staff, and wartime inflation caused fiscal hardship.

Getting something for nothing and selling it for something may be financially beneficial to Mr. Levitch but fiscally irresponsible for Telecare, especially during this period of fiscal hardship.

State school officials say the changes have a good chance at success because a majority of the Regents favors the concept at a time of fiscal hardship.

And with the state facing its third consecutive year of fiscal hardship, Mr. McGreevey will not have Republicans to blame for the increasingly difficult decisions needed to balance the budget.

"While the bad actors have been successfully removed from the program, these changes are also disrupting legitimate businesses and causing fiscal hardship."

"Without such efforts, fiscal hardships at the local level and poorly implemented reform programs are the inevitable outcome."

Commissioner Coughlin, sensing opportunity in the state fiscal hardships of the past few years, has pursued some of the alternatives to incarceration that reformers have advocated.

But while he said he favored city financing for smaller institutions as well as the 31 large institutions, he also warned that the city's fiscal hardships meant there would be little new money available.

With the onset of the depression, both societies faced fiscal hardship and were forced to cease operation.