Another senior backbencher, Nicola Blackwood — who chairs the Commons science committee — added: «I have joined other Conservative MPs asking the Chancellor to look again at the PIP proposals, because I have always believed that even in difficult fiscal times we must do our utmost to protect the most vulnerable.» (mirror.co.uk)
Me thinks that the direction will be «All the government we need, only the government we need» that was used in a campaign of long ago when the state was facing difficult fiscal times, albeit not as difficult as now. (nystateofpolitics.com)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden acknowledged that «tough choices had to be made,» adding that these are «really difficult fiscal times.» (sciencemag.org)