For one thing, the financially hard-pressed schools already have many competing fund-raising campaigns, and they are under stress given the distraction of the Persian Gulf War.

Ballet Theater will now produce itself at the theater, an expensive proposition for a financially hard-pressed troupe.

THERE still may be a casino in the cards for financially hard-pressed Bridgeport.

Increasingly, he added, the executives responsible for corporate advertising "are having a hard time selling their budgets" to financially hard-pressed top management.

Also, the financially hard-pressed University of California at Los Angeles, with 13 departments among the top 10, was among the five leading publicly supported universities.

To financially hard-pressed publishers, the growing market for these books seems to promise rich rewards.

In 1987 the financially hard-pressed troupe allied with the Tampa Ballet.

Road construction and maintenance were ignored by a financially hard-pressed government, while insurgents regularly destroyed bridges and rendered some routes unsafe for travel.

Only last summer, the financially hard-pressed Ballet Theater was in danger of collapse.

But here, I suspect that the financially hard-pressed are in the majority.