Sentences with phrase «less wiggle room in»

But other living expenses are higher and take a bigger bite out of paychecks, leaving residents with less wiggle room in their budgets than in states with a lower cost of living.

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If these projections come true, it will mean the government will have less wiggle room to fund all the other programs in the budget, including defense, infrastructure, education, environmental protections and other discretionary programs.

That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a flat rate,» higher swipe fees «could make our pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.

In all honesty, this recipe has a lot of wiggle room to it, and using slightly more or less spinach won't make a huge difference.

Only once, in response to a question from a reporter Syracuse, did Cuomo directly say that LATFOR would by definition fail to meet the «independent» standard he created, leaving many observers to believe that he has deliberately left himself wiggle room in case he has to justify a less clear - cut resolution than the overhaul he promised.

Building in some wiggle room for these inevitable and perfectly normal ebbs and flows will create far less stress and emotional upheaval.

If you think there's wiggle room here, take note: Because Colin Firth and Morgan Freeman are still solidly in this race, even though Tom Ford's embarrassing impersonation of Wong Kar - wai throughout A Single Man and Clint Eastwood's dully exploitative pushing of a Mandela - as - Obama message in his elegantly composed Afterschool Special Invictus didn't do either actor any favors, it's probably unlikely that Viggo Mortensen will sneak in for The Road, which has unfairly gotten less love this award season than those two films.

However, the 100 percent MoE requirement for IDEA — in contrast to the 90 percent MoE requirement for Title I — means there is far less wiggle room for districts facing across - the - board funding shortfalls to reduce special education expenditures even if it is the equitable or reasonable thing to do and can be done without negatively impacting student services.

For all the back and forth, there is not a lot of wiggle room, as revenue estimates for the state are so far coming in below forecasts, only portending less money, not more.

And the more you spend on housing, the less wiggle room you'll have in your budget to cover your remaining expenses.

Over the longer term the accuracy is better, there is less wiggle room, and in fact we are able to balance out the energy flows — i.e. the increase in ocean heat content is pretty much what is expected from the anticipated radiative imbalance (see the figure).

Therefore, they often have far less «wiggle» room and will actually negotiate less than in other markets.