The technical and community college system has already made that declaration, known as financial exigency, and the state university system has begun the process.

Despite the financial exigencies, I was having a good time at parties, and the missus resented that.

Not that financial exigencies are ever far from a buyer's mind.

Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.

The board says that the college, faced with "financial exigency," must reduce faculty and resources.

"They've been using financial exigency as an excuse," Dr. Amoda said.

"The judge is saying that we should have acted twice, and decided again whether we were in a state of financial exigency," Mr. Hershenson said.

As is often the case with artists who have to produce potboilers to survive, their best work is neglected in the interests of financial exigencies.

As this academic year nears its midpoint, many universities are undergoing self-examinations brought on by financial exigencies.

Once invested, professors can be let go only for serious misconduct or what their contracts generally call "financial exigencies."