live on a shoestring

This was a kind of brainstorming for governments living on a shoestring.

Like many experimental artists in New York, he lived on a shoestring.

We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there.'

He underwent a significant intellectual development, but was living on a shoestring and had to work more than one job to make a living.

I, however, live on a shoestring budget, and I need my finances to be completely secure.

In the meantime, she and her family are living on a shoestring, dipping into their savings and trying to keep spending down.

In the mean time, she was living on a shoestring, breaking even, but she was surviving.

While every other developer was either living on a shoestring or testing the waters of bankruptcy court, Moravia continued to make money.

Wedged into expensive colleges, the athletes live on a shoestring while their coaches make a bundle from their sweat.

"I wasn't really that much worried it would bother me financially because I live on a shoestring," he said, standing near his small, rusted car.

But I'm aware that even if I am living on a shoestring, it's very important to put away all that I can."

"Raised on a ranch, getting up at 5 A.M. to take care of the livestock, living on a shoestring.

Boondockers can be footloose and spontaneous in their travel and save camp fees - a consideration, because many live on a shoestring.

So he and Chris lived on a shoestring, with dignity, in a rural retreat as quiet as a library but for the perpetual hum of mental industry.

When he began Follow-Up Ministries Inc., his own ministry, the family lived on a shoestring in Tacoma, Wash.

Although she is living on a shoestring now, she said, if the sale of her home goes as expected she will more than double her investment with little financing.

But he and Ms. Tsuno still live on a shoestring, plowing income back into their not-for-profit video school, Downtown Community Television Center.

"It's right after World War I, there isn't much money around, and Stravinsky and his circle are living on a shoestring, giving chamber concerts in small theaters.

Living on a shoestring, she and other theater and artist types answered an ad in The Village Voice promising a "low-rent deal" in a building in the South Bronx.

After nearly a decade of living on a shoestring, I feel well off and fortunate to have a job (though I wonder if I will ever be able to send my own kids to college).

When you're a middle-aged single mother living on a shoestring, spending a week's grocery money on some fancy boxers for your new boyfriend, as Rebecca does once she spies Mike's dingy, old-man underwear, is risky indeed.

Desmond subsequently released Living On A Shoestring on Konk, featuring members of The Kinks and produced by Dave Davies and fellow Kink member, keyboardist John Gosling.

Living on a Shoestring John Badger, national director of Aask-America, said of Rootwings that "there is no young adoption agency in the country" that has a better reputation for preparing adoptive parents and conducting thorough home studies.

Riding around Manhattan on her bright blue bicycle, Kelly Craig resembles a lot of other young actresses in New York, with her klieg-light smile, her willowy figure and her cheerful willingness to live on a shoestring while working to make it big.