But the Brooklyn garden is facing fiscal strains, too.

Beyond all this, under the fiscal strain fewer managers are now responsible for more units.

County governments, flush with sales-tax revenues that reflect a shopping culture, appear to have moved beyond annual budget crises and fiscal strains.

Because of the fiscal strains caused by the recession, the city has been cutting back the size of the capital budget in recent years.

But the economic consequences could be harsh, because removing a major water utility from the tax roles would create new fiscal strains.

The smaller the surplus, the greater the resulting fiscal strains are on future budgets, he said.

People are going to have to pay more out of their pockets at a time of fiscal strain.

The angry exchanges came just two weeks after the nation's top military commanders warned President Clinton about growing fiscal strains on the armed services.

That long a delay would create fiscal strains for hundreds of municipalities and school districts and could increase voters' anger toward incumbents.

Mr. Green also said local governments would be paying higher interest at a time when they are under their worse fiscal strain in decades.