budget
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Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The company has set a capital budget of over 40 billion euros through 2030, with more than half of this earmarked for industrial investments and strategic acquisitions, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
As Metrolink faces budget shortfalls and service reductions, the regional commuter rail network is raising its ticket prices on Monday for the first time in 13 years by as much as 27%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The thinking went that yields in France were already historically high compared with those in the safer German market, and bound to revert toward more normal levels despite budget travails in Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
If the town can’t afford to replace the old heating system in an elementary school, they probably don’t have it in the budget to pay for baby trees.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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New-car sticker shock and modern cars with longer lifespans—in addition to tightening household budgets and high interest rates—are leading Americans to hold on to their rides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Skills managing schedules, budgets and a team of people are appealing, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The director would be able to manage public works projects, including construction, buying or leasing property, exercising eminent domain with City Council approval, granting street permits, regulating parking and recommending budgets for the department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
However, without a majority of the seats in Cardiff Bay, ap Iorwerth leads a minority administration which has to work with opposition Members of the Senedd to pass new laws and budgets.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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But manager Diana Logan‑Watts said diesel prices had "rocketed so quickly" that the extra costs were "not something that we had budgeted into account".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Current estimates indicate that the second correction and orbital insertion should both require less fuel than originally budgeted.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The process: They had initially budgeted for homes around $530,000 in the suburb, which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Each of these programs went years past their original delivery deadlines and cost far more than originally budgeted.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Speaker Day featured two speakers—usually small-time celebrities or small-time politicians or small-time academics, the kind of people who would come and speak at a school for the measly three hundred bucks the school budgeted.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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Adam Auriemma on budgeting, renting versus buying, investments, financial advisors, and more!
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
She added that, despite "budgeting proactively" and "being as careful as you can with savings and credit cards", rising bills mean people's financial situations are out of their control.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Congress established CBO in 1974 to advise its budgeting, and it plays a useful role in tracking monthly spending figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Raman: Understanding the finances of the city and how budgeting works in the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
She had traveled for stories a few times in the past—down to Columbus, to investigate state budgeting cuts; up to Ann Arbor, when a former Shaker student had started at quarterback in the Michigan-OSU game.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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