Last year, the Trinitarian Order, which provided priests for the church, decided to move its members out of the parish in the face of fiscal belt-tightening and a continuing personnel shortage.

It is the only way to do more with less, to turn bureaucrats back into innovators, to explore new worlds in an age of fiscal belt-tightening.

It would be bad policy, they said, to pretend that fiscal belt-tightening and conservative economic management of the kind the fund insists on can succeed if they do not provide for social welfare and stability.

Mayor Koch has said the TNT crackdown was his No. 1 priority despite fiscal belt-tightening.

Hungary sought financial relief from the League of Nations, which insisted on a program of rigid fiscal belt-tightening, resulting in increased unemployment.

But, in politics, when is fiscal belt-tightening ever opportune?

For example, Mrs. Whitman has repeatedly warned municipalities that they would have to conduct the same fiscal belt-tightening that she intended to bring to state government.

Mr. Livingston talks tough and is given to boisterous, arm-flailing outbursts, but he has also shown a knack for rigorous fiscal belt-tightening.

Part of the club's decline was due to fiscal belt-tightening and refusal to sign free agents, although it was not clear which general partner ordered the policy.

But if the poor are hurting, the middle class is sailing through the fiscal belt-tightening with relative ease.