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"shoestring" Definitions
  1. that uses very little money

458 Sentences With "shoestring"

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"We're already on a shoestring budget of funding," he said.
She ran it, generally on a shoestring, until her death.
Sanford's lethargic reelection bid was a lightly staffed shoestring affair.
That was the beginning of the shoestring film budget movement.
These shoestring imitation movies confuse viewers looking for genuine Hollywood blockbusters.
The technology, he explained, was being developed on a "shoestring budget."
Instead, those studies are done on a shoestring budget, he said.
I had no room in my shoestring budget for speeding tickets.
Some of these people have to travel on really shoestring budgets.
For so long, the institute operated on a shoestring, he said.
Initially, Bullock plans to run a shoestring campaign based out of Helena.
The whole thing had been thrown together fast, on a shoestring budget.
Some backpackers are taking traveling on a shoestring to a new level.
If you're planning a vacation on a shoestring, do your homework first.
And all on a shoestring budget, partly thanks to Phillippunk's booze supply.
In the world of academic institutes, the Berkeley Institute runs on a shoestring.
But Emmerich didn't make a shoestring movie, he made a $165 million blockbuster.
But they're not very well funded and they're all sort of shoestring operations.
Her films, often produced on a shoestring, did not reach a mainstream audience.
Sanders' campaign isn't impressed with Biden's 11th-hour, shoestring operation in the state.
In the first half, he made a shoestring catch of a Prescott pass.
Though an elite force, the unit appears to operate on a shoestring budget.
Compared to their U.S. counterparts, Mexico's migration authorities get by on a shoestring.
Sime Silverman founded the weekly version of Variety on a shoestring in 222.
So if you&aposre filing on a shoestring, which software should you use?
He is editor of The Shoestring, a worker-owned news publication in Western Massachusetts.
And they managed to do it straight out of college on a shoestring budget.
This plan will give teachers a shoestring budget and leave grads drowning in debt.
Still, Everybody, unlike her former employer, is a start-up on a shoestring budget.
Traditional video stores were shoestring operations with minuscule offerings and a whiff of seediness.
Also they're shoestring, which is the best kind of fry don't even try me.
Me, I had lots of romaine and a half-bag of frozen shoestring fries.
Can a scrappy Israeli nonprofit land on the moon on a $100 million shoestring?
Mr. Santorum won the Iowa caucuses in 2012, running his campaign on a shoestring budget.
Unlike Vance, he is running on a shoestring budget with a small ad hoc staff.
Unlike the Beatles and the Beach Boys, the Zombies were working on a shoestring budget.
We had been operating on a shoestring budget since our launch back in March 2015.
What was it like tackling the special effects you wanted on such a shoestring budget?
But he is campaigning on a shoestring budget and is barely known in the countryside.
In World War II, the US Army fought on a shoestring for the first year.
There are many signs that the national tuberculosis program here survives on a shoestring budget.
It all started, McAfee says, with a shoestring operation run out of his suburban townhouse.
As the director of the safe house, Samwelly and her team operate on a shoestring.
They are operating on shoestring budgets and are desperate to raise awareness about the problem.
We will continue to expand access to treatment in whatever way our shoestring budget allows.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — To call Deval Patrick's campaign a shoestring operation would be insulting to shoestrings.
A leading advocate for it is Changing the Conversation Together, a shoestring operation in Brooklyn.
I started this campaign on a shoestring budget in the neighborhood I grew up in.
Art dealers with shoestring budgets take the spaces as they are, or close to it.
For the A's, who had long operated on a shoestring budget, the experiment could pay dividends.
In fact, the entire training camp has been done on a bit of a shoestring budget.
Or that Nora Ephron made four shoestring-budget movies grossing $90 million or more that decade.
She has a shoestring campaign that has barely thought about organizing in states beyond South Carolina.
The Equity Point Marrakech Hostel is glamour on a shoestring — beds start at $9 per night.
Fortunately, it's easier than ever to get your voice out there, even on a shoestring budget.
As he points out, even a startup on a shoestring budget can afford $50 a month.
"We're actually legitimately building the world's largest ocean observation platform on a shoestring," Mr. Lang said.
I was delirious without sleep, but I'd seen Paris and had stuck to my shoestring budget.
But it's been pretty much on a shoestring so far, and we've done well with it.
I eat the most delicious filet mignon with creamed spinach and shoestring potatoes and go home.
Operating on a shoestring budget is also the norm at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
While this may sound small, it reflects the shoestring budgets on which many local organizations depend.
"Dollar Store" is dedicated to the go-to shopping stop for a family living on a shoestring.
She was starting over, renting a small apartment near her school, furnishing it on a shoestring budget.
Nollywood produces thousands of movies per year, most of them on shoestring budgets and made within days.
"Like the thing on the end of your shoestring, it helps it keep from fraying," she says.
The vast majority of these games are wretched, seemingly cobbled together on impossible deadlines and shoestring budgets.
"He's spent no money on his campaign so far," the source said of Trump's shoestring campaign budget.
And we had been doing things on a shoestring budget—but recently there have been more grants.
It's also important that the company be able to do things nimbly and on a shoestring budget.
First, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) functions on a shoestring budget compared with other leading Test sides.
But commissioned work repelled him, and he began to shun it for a career of shoestring independence.
The real innovation here is that Aurora thinks it can do this on a veritable shoestring budget.
"This verse had been written on my shoestring from the first day of the season," she says.
Little more than concrete shells, they are perfect for artists looking to create studios on a shoestring.
When Michael Dubin founded subscription razor business Dollar Shave Club (DSC), he launched it on a shoestring.
He does not want to be that guy who stumbles where once he made a shoestring catch.
The patty is then topped with tangy ketchup, diced onions, and then smothered in crunchy shoestring potatoes.
For the people who operate McMurdo Station, getting by on a shoestring is a point of pride.
These companies are lean — they don't require much capital because they can theoretically operate on a shoestring.
Instead, he had a single camera, and so he began loading his own shoestring productions onto YouTube.
"What a difference a week makes," said Engelman, co-founder of the digital platform Mommy on a Shoestring.
DIY promoters were able to pull off parties on a shoestring budget—often illegally—without too much drama.
Even if they can get everyone to agree, the time frame is extraordinarily small for a shoestring budget.
It'll be a big cash outlay but you don't unseat a titan like Amazon on a shoestring budget.
While there, she earned just $300 per month, which forced her to get by on a shoestring budget.
But the shoestring-budget effects are also worth noting, for the way they create a seamless, plausible reality.
Then 2190-year-old Michael Goff launched the magazine in 2000 with a shoestring budget from outside investors.
Hope, did you ever find yourself holding your life together with the proverbial shoestring before you got established?
But operating on a shoestring in the home of the NFL, basketball and other "super sports" was tough.
"You can tie a shoestring to a maxi pad to make a sleep mask," Uzo Aduba told InStyle.
My girlfriend and I were in the middle of a six-week, shoestring-budget grand tour of Europe.
Cruel Intentions secured financing from Sony, but it was to be made on a shoestring $203 million budget.
Though vintage racing is an amateur affair, it isn't the kind of competition anyone pursues on a shoestring.
Missing the debates would have made breaking out of a crowded field (on a shoestring budget) prohibitively difficult.
In my view, it was basically because of an abundance of resources and sometimes innovation requires a shoestring.
The Voice was operating on a shoestring budget, trying to vie with The Villager, a more genteel weekly.
His debut feature, shot on a shoestring budget and taking place largely in a McMansion in Austin, Tex.
Working off a relative shoestring of a budget, Aggrego first powered a group of Chicago hyper-local sites.
The moves by Moore's shoestring campaign fit in with the candidate's long history of embracing unproven conspiracy theories.
A Congolese art historian based in Belgium, Toma Moteba Luntumbue, supervised two subsequent editions — still on a shoestring.
It later expanded online, where it continued to operate on a shoestring budget and with a small staff.
These are clinics working on a shoestring [budget] under the same restrictions and regulations that a Planned Parenthood would.
So it's maybe surprising that the IPCC is a shoestring operation, running on just over $4.3 million a year.
It is run on a shoestring, with "60-70 people", Mr Gupta says; chatbots answer 85% of customers' queries.
Instead, much of his campaign has been self-funded, using his personal wealth to fuel his shoestring primary campaign.
She was a smart, strategic entrepreneur who found ways to get things done with quality on a shoestring budget.
Whether you're on a shoestring budget or not, we have a pass that's right for you — starting at $145.
The siblings initially ran Worldnet New York on a shoestring out of the tiny Forest Hills apartment they shared.
The first episode, featuring the critic John Simon and the producer Elizabeth McCann, was made on a shoestring budget.
"Swell," Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana who is running a shoestring campaign for president, wrote on Twitter Friday.
In that series, he also made a diving shoestring catch and then doubled up a runner on first base.
It is a bit of a shoestring operation without offices or much in the way of benefits and perks.
The physical setting of Shabushabu Macoron strongly suggests a shoestring budget — the paper towel roll in the restroom hangs from what may be an actual shoestring — but sitting there while Ms. Okano stands a few inches away and makes your dinner is one of the most luxurious experiences this city currently offers.
Video could be the saving grace for amateur content producers who want to get professional results on a shoestring budget.
Now Master sees an opportunity to cater not just to deep-pocketed corporate customers but also startups on shoestring budgets.
Nation-building on a shoestring helped keep Somaliland's politicians relatively accountable, and helped to keep the delicate balance between clans.
There are extravagant blockbusters and shoestring indies, oddball discoveries and cozy comforts, and we are here for all of it.
For his part, Moore seemed to be animated on the campaign trail by the spending against his relatively shoestring campaign.
The best-intentioned and brightest detectives are working on a shoestring in communities that have zero reason to trust them.
"We did this on a shoestring budget," said Lori Schock, director of the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy.
Brazilians know how to put on a good show on a shoestring — this is the country of Carnival, after all.
Typically made independently, without studio backing and on shoestring budgets, the films often blur the lines between documentary and feature.
The center opened in 24 on a shoestring budget in a former delicatessen at 120 Liberty Street, opposite ground zero.
With the help of his wife at the time, Abby Rubinstein, and others, he began the paper on a shoestring.
The one play I saw, Ms. Casey's "False Stars," was very much in keeping with that independent, shoestring-budget spirit.
"It was able to sustain itself on a shoestring, but we wanted to expand the potential," Ms. Crow, 38, said.
She was named the company's first marketing manager, and was given a "shoestring" budget for heading up Google's marketing efforts.
The climate work that continues on a shoestring budget at USDA is being kept low-profile to avoid political controversy.
As of May 31, the Buttigieg presidential team has expanded dramatically from a shoestring operation with just a few employees.
The show has retained an impression of seat-of-the-pants, frantic improvisation, such as one associates with local shoestring entertainments.
Preston offers radicalism on a shoestring, with its council's annual spending on services cut by a third since 2010, to £20m.
Majal faced DDoS attacks, defacements, and malicious script injections for years but couldn't afford pricey digital defenses on its shoestring budget.
Dunye made The Watermelon Woman on a shoestring budget of $300,000—about one tenth of which came from an NEA grant.
Entrepreneurs know the stress that comes from bootstrapping a tech startup on a shoestring budget — and a frayed one at that.
But given the shoestring budgets of community groups, there had been no sustained effort capable of funding a statewide political campaign.
His catered events are more reminiscent of the perks given to employees at Bloomberg LP than the usual shoestring Democratic rally.
His catered events are more reminiscent of the perks given to employees at Bloomberg LP than the usual shoestring Democratic rally.
Shoestring budgets, thin staffing and lots of trial and error are hardly ideal conditions for any entrepreneurs, let alone working parents.
Even by modest Division III standards, St. Olaf's athletic teams, playing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, operate on a shoestring.
A spectacular opening ceremony in the Maracana Stadium, put together on a shoestring budget, was undermined by delays at the Olympic Village.
Because it's hard for me to imagine we would go out and buy snacks because we were so on a shoestring budget.
The Justice Ministry, for example, demanded last week that a shoestring human rights group led by Lev A. Ponomaryov, 78, be disbanded.
The Department is already operating on a shoestring, with employees working as long and as hard as any place I've ever seen.
Darrow's early copies of Monopoly were made on a shoestring budget so tight that the game didn't even come with player tokens.
It's not for someone on a shoestring budget, but is a great investment for someone who truly cares about their internet quality.
Once the four episodes were finished — on a shoestring budget of $1,600 — the writers and the producer started looking for a platform.
The program was being operated on a shoestring budget and crew members were required to get 36 hours of training each year.
He didn't like being so close to the Met, where his shoestring productions would be compared with the opulent ones next door.
Some Indians were consoled by the fact that their country had nearly pulled off an extraordinarily complex mission on a shoestring budget.
Nessel's opening campaign ad was recorded in her living room on a shoestring budget, as she looks squarely into her phone camera.
PICK THE RIGHT DESTINATION Some cities are especially welcoming to L.G.B.T. travelers, whether your budget is lavish or shoestring, Mr. Rubin said.
Q: What were your shoestring early days with the Paul Mitchell line like - even living out of your car at the beginning?
At the same time, the firm fixes leaky pipes and broken windows for clients like an after-school program called Operation Shoestring.
"I didn't think that it would be this stark, but I knew that she would never run a shoestring campaign," Sellers said.
"We produced this film as a family, on a shoestring budget, traveling around the country together, trying to document this movement," she said.
The workshop struggles to run on a shoestring budget of $700,000 a year, said Nidia Perez, an art historian who heads the workshop.
Be prepared to spend money as things are pricey, but you can also do it on a more shoestring budget if you choose.
He would also subsidise the 22013 local call centres that serve the national suicide-prevention lifeline, and tend to operate on a shoestring.
The videos that he makes are still pulled together on a shoestring budget, but the names of the artists have gotten significantly bigger.
The clinic was run, with cutthroat efficiency on a shoestring budget, by a sixtysomething nurse who had worked there most of her life.
We found that one of the best ways to grow a business on a shoestring budget is to do the initial work yourselves.
In his first year, with a shoestring budget of $300 (the equivalent of about $7003,000 today), his team participated in just one meet.
Paderno Spiralizer, $49.95Angel hair, spiral cut, shoestring, or ribbon — they can pick any of these cuts that will make eating vegetables more interesting.
I often saw athletes wandering hand in hand at sunset along the shoestring of waterways that laced between the 20-odd residential buildings.
Not long ago, galleries here numbered in the few dozens; now there are around 220 — huge, teensy, rich, shoestring — clumped across the city.
It was one of scores of small spaces across the city operating with shoestring budgets and aspirations of showing bold and groundbreaking theater.
Contrary to the belief that the U.N. runs on a shoestring, total expenditure for the U.N. system in 2016 was around $49 billion.
It is an organization on a shoestring; she and two colleagues do not have offices and hold meetings at the local community center.
For example, sweet potatoes and yams only come in a regular cut, while russet potatoes can be ordered as regular, homestyle, or shoestring.
While he failed to win the seat, he learned a lot about city government bureaucracy and running an outsider campaign on a shoestring budget.
And while health professionals on the island operate on a shoestring, the system is geared to preventing disease rather than waiting to treat it.
She ran the gallery on a shoestring, working by herself for the first three years and using Korman Gallery stationery until it ran out.
The Every Woman Biennial, a festival that opens in New York this weekend, was born of a joke and came together on a shoestring.
Sister Poinsette saved one purple and one green shoestring from the trip to wear as a reminder to pray for the people she met.
Sister Poinsette saved one purple and one green shoestring from the trip to wear as a reminder to pray for the people she met.
The reserve he leads relies on federal government funding, and the community struggles to address underemployment and many social issues on a shoestring budget.
However, the divisive nominee has had trouble fundraising in the past, and his scrappy campaign has operated on a shoestring budget for its entire existence.
Swim-up bars and million dollar views generally call to mind luxe Caribbean hotels, but Manila's PINK hostel is reclaiming luxuries for the shoestring crew.
I think that is really an outrage, especially to disabled vets functioning on a shoestring budget, who can't afford to buy cannabis from a dispensary.
British success has increased in line with total funding since 1996, when Team GB won just one gold medal in Atlanta on a shoestring budget.
Even on a shoestring, however, the production couldn't help but break new ground, both in the story they chose to tell and their visual approach.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fred Schebesta started a digital marketing business while still in college in Australia, working on a shoestring out of his dorm room.
Launched on a shoestring by entrepreneur Monika Linton 28 years ago, Brindisa now employs 300 people in five London restaurants, two shops and a warehouse.
Colonialism in Africa was largely a shoestring affair, its ambitions hemmed in by the restraining orders of European treasuries and the sensitivities of local populations.
Many were also proud that the ceremony was done on a shoestring, showcasing the Brazilian talent for gambiarra, the art of improvising on the cheap.
Given that many student groups operate on a shoestring, such a sliding scale of security fees clearly operates to discourage student invitations to provocative speakers.
She talked in interviews and her many autobiographies about how the movie ended up having so many flaws because they made it on a shoestring.
But the coif is magnificent, an exposed ego of an updo that communicates all the shoestring pretensions of the world Eugene and Jane occupy together.
To compete, studios have moved to the extremes: horror movies made on shoestring budgets, and lavishly expensive franchise films aimed at the broadest possible audience.
In the last four years, The Bitter Southerner has emerged, on a shoestring budget, as a kind of kitchen-sink New Yorker for the region.
It operates on a shoestring budget, with only one full-time employee and two part-time helpers, but Steepletop has been running at a loss.
As an innovator and perfectionist who likes his Zen gardens just so, Ellison must also admire the Kiwis' precision and ingenuity on a relative shoestring.
Some of the tribal nations within the state's borders are operating on shoestring budgets, with their programs drastically underfunded by Congress and the Trump administration.
But Belko, obviously shot on a shoestring budget, gets caught in a feedback loop between its larger ideals of workplace satire and its evidently cheap look.
All the salads we tried were showstoppers: the Caesar with its topknot of crunchy shoestring onion rings, and the Greek salad with vibrant, summer-quality tomatoes.
Most are still in their 20s, equally male and female and even if they're on a shoestring, the majority are from middle- to middle-upperclass families.
President-elect Donald Trump achieved what many thought was impossible: Run a controversial and unconventional campaign as a political outsider on a shoestring budget and win.
"Our staff are inspired by the work that is already being done in communities, often with extremely shoestring resources, and hope to offer some additional tools."
A Shiloh, Illinois, woman was charged with animal cruelty after she tied a shoestring around her dog's snout and shared a photo of it on Facebook.
Stuffed with braised ham hock, shoestring fries, and homemade piccalilli, one bite of this and you'll never look at a Pret sandwich the same way again.
Whether you're a waffle fry person or more of a shoestring fan, you can celebrate your love of all fried potatoes on National French Fry Day.
It was made on a shoestring, and Godard was brimming with manic brilliance, constantly rewriting the "script," and forcing improvisations upon the cast and the crew.
The result of her efforts was the American Association of Sex Educators and Counselors, which she founded on a shoestring with the help of several others.
Made on a shoestring budget and self-distributed, "Upstream Color" is an inspiring tale that shows us that there's more to life than our everyday existence.
As sporting director of Monza — a soccer club with a shoestring budget and narrow horizons in Italy's third tier — he had little clout with his peers.
They fought in malarial swamps and on sweltering savannas, incredibly hostile environments where it's hard to survive, let alone wage a guerrilla war on a shoestring.
From thick-cut steak French fries to crispy shoestring French fries and poutine doused in gravy and cheese, French fries come in thousands of mouthwatering varieties.
ALABAMA: Fry lovers and burger fans alike should add Baha Burger in Hoover to their list of must-visit Alabama food spots for fresh shoestring fries.
They said the Trump campaign was operating on a shoestring budget and didn't have the kind of opposition research to keep up with the Clinton campaign.
Giving back Beth Engelman, co-founder of the site Mommy on a Shoestring, decided to do something different this year with her 7-year-old son, Jackson.
Whether you choose to start up on a shoestring or begin with a bang, there will come a time when you'll need to look for external capital.
Following the country's financial crisis in the late 1990s, these cheap, cheerful, unhealthy eateries sprang up in their thousands to cater to the salaryman on a shoestring.
TV stations, merchandise companies, and foreign streaming services walk away with the profits, leaving not only individual animators struggling but entire studios scraping by on shoestring budgets.
Indies are, by their nature, more organic creatures; their gatekeepers are mostly the passionate filmmakers who scratch and claw for production money, then shoot on a shoestring.
Its shoestring budget and jam-packed planes will deliver an operating margin of 25 percent in 2019, according to Refinitiv data, and its debt is relatively low.
While it has operated on a relative shoestring, insiders acknowledge that there is no way to carry out an effective delegate open convention operation without sufficient bodies.
We are already operating on a shoestring budget, and further increases in the uninsured rate will place an even greater burden on programs already short on resources.
While the Outpost certainly feels like a shoestring-budgeted high school production of Thrones gone shockingly awry, it does have something Westeros lacks: an apocalyptic plague element.
The White House has been operating with a shoestring communications staff during the shutdown and preparations for a Thursday briefing did not appear underway ahead of time.
Other suitable options include a brisket sandwich, or a burger ordered "bloody" — cold-smoked, then seared and covered with a bourbon-laden barbecue sauce and shoestring onions.
The churrasco is a seared skirt steak, nearly as silky as roasted eggplant, served with a nest of shoestring yucca fries and a zesty blended jalapeño sauce.
Park rangers do a remarkable job taking care of our parks, but with shoestring budgets they simply don't have the resources to keep up with these repairs.
It was testament to her persistence and ability to get things done on a shoestring, said a former colleague, Cedric Garland, a professor emeritus at the university.
But as was tradition among graduate students in college towns across the country, Halloween meant a week of elaborate parties and requisite disguises on a shoestring budget.
Once a small operation running on a shoestring budget, Project Veritas in recent years has had a surge in donations from both private donors and conservative foundations.
I was suicidal and apathetic...until I managed to study abroad in Rome on a shoestring, then travel and work throughout the world...and all by choice.
But reinventing the hourlong show every week on a shoestring leads to wildly uneven, often amateurish productions, packed full of moments of inspiration that don't last long.
But where the Somali government continues to seek external support, the Shabab has learned to be "self-reliant" and "operate on a shoestring budget," Mr. Abdi said.
Samsons, a private company that acquired the state-owned resort in 2013, hopes Pakistanis will now return, seeking a taste of the Alps on a shoestring budget.
On Oakland's next possession after Anderson's score, Poole made a shoestring catch on a deflected pass and raced home to make it a blowout at 34-3.
If you don't know what a bolo tie is, it is a tie made up of shoestring or leather with decorative tips that's looped through an ornamental clasp.
While a late-summer stupor sweeps multiplexes, TIFF plays host to all kinds of movies, from Oscar hopefuls to shoestring indies to foreign favorites and experimental genre fare.
People are just figuring out who we all are thanks to the news, but we've been out here putting in the work for years on a shoestring budget.
Trump said he took pride in having won the Republican primary on a shoestring budget and minimal staff, as he contrasted his primary resources to Clinton's robust operation.
Filmed on a shoestring budget, it remains one of the most profitable films of all time, and directly influenced the film that currently holds that record, Paranormal Activity.
The once-shoestring campaign that proudly spent less than 10% of the money it raised in the first quarter of 2019 is rushing to build a robust organization.
Back in June, a Twitter users stirred up drama by ranking different types of fries, including shoestring, crinkle cut, steak, smiley face, and more, from best to worst.
The main reason those parties weren't bringing in international DJs was because they were operating on a shoestring budget, and quite often getting shut down by the police.
Wedded to a "high-proof" context, and willing to believe only experiments they can conduct in their own backyard on a shoestring budget, their misunderstanding is likely unfixable.
NOTES: Phillies CF Odubel Herrera, who is riding a career-long 17-game hitting streak, tweaked his left hamstring Monday night while trying to make a shoestring catch.
Yeah, well at a young age it was always going into a studio with a shoestring budget, so I had to get it done in a few hours.
And though efforts to identify migrants who die there have improved somewhat in the last few years, they remain scattershot, hampered by shoestring budgets and overwhelmed local authorities.
Consequently, typical diet trials must get by on shoestring budgets, rarely exceeding a few hundred thousand dollars, compared with drug trials that may cost several hundred million dollars.
Oxbotica's public road trials are labour-intensive and costly, and demonstrate the extent of the challenge facing companies aspiring to take on Waymo and Uber on a shoestring.
He and his brother, Jay Duplass, have become the go-to creators of shoestring budget films like Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and The Do-Deca-Pentathalon.
Oxbotica's public road trials are labor-intensive and costly, and demonstrate the extent of the challenge facing companies aspiring to take on Waymo and Uber on a shoestring.
The Tramps gallery is a shoestring operation run by Parinaz Mogadassi (who founded the first Tramps in London) in collaboration with the Michael Werner Gallery (her day job).
These groups often operate on a shoestring, and now they face dramatically increased demand, plus withdrawal of many older adult volunteers who are at heightened risk from infection.
With no ad budget to speak of and a shoestring organization, Biden put on a three-day exhibition of how to leverage pure momentum into a massive victory.
Truth is, there are still scrawny, fledgling labels operating on a shoestring with more gusto than business plan, and they still make New York Fashion Week their home.
He had, however, hit four line drives that were caught by outfielders, including one that Andrew Romine snagged with a shoestring catch and another sacrifice fly earlier Wednesday.
Even with Ms. Eckblad at the helm, her office still operates in some ways more like an upstart campaign on a shoestring budget than like a congressional office.
It's true we already have the quarter-life crisis — I'd had that post-college "what now?" moment after quitting music school and backpacking abroad on a shoestring budget.
Whether you're traveling on a shoestring or have decided to eat your way through your savings, here are 29 restaurants (and travel destinations) that are guaranteed to not disappoint.
These days it's less about making music vids glossy and impressive and more about being inventive on a shoestring—take a teeny tiny budget and stretch it like Gumby.
Judy, the winner of 64 Scottish tennis titles and Britain's former Fed Cup captain, coached both her sons until they were about 11 and 12 on a shoestring budget.
The NGO runs on a shoestring budget, and aims to teach kids, especially girls, the basics of STEM, and offer them a hands-on way to develop their skills.
That it was done on a shoestring budget only makes it even more impressive—it's proof that true originals will always find a way to make their voices heard.
At a time when America is in need of trusted—and locally minded—sources of information, this characteristically Alaskan, shoestring approach is helping keep an outpost of broadcasting alive.
Executed on a shoestring, begun amid major social tumult, "Star Trek" triumphed in large part because it tackled such essential and eternal themes as prejudice, war, learning and love.
This combination of excess and cluelessness led to a bloated production that cost $6 million yet still wound up looking as though it were filmed on a shoestring budget.
The antiwar activists have been alone in the embassy building since late April, when the American visas for the shoestring embassy staff expired, forcing the diplomats to go home.
You're already operating on a shoestring budget, but you're staying afloat thanks to loyal moviegoers and families who see your cinema as a place for discovery, community, and delight.
The sausage is blanketed in crispy shoestring potatoes, fluffy scrambled eggs, Cheddar, and spicy Gochujang aioli, and tucked into a sesame brioche bun that's been toasted and heavily buttered.
Edelman's most important catch — in the eyes of Patriots fans — was his shoestring reception that kept the team's comeback bid alive in Super Bowl LI against the Atlanta Falcons.
And more importantly, by choosing the location and house that we did, and by flipping it on a shoestring budget, we turned our first home into an investment property.
My father once told me an analogous story about a small poetry magazine, a publication that operated on the proverbial shoestring and was always weeks away from shutting down.
C.I.A. officers created a fake headquarters for Vang Pao to receive visiting congressmen and other dignitaries and fool them into believing they were supporting a shoestring, purely Hmong operation.
Numbering more than 200 companies, ranging from shoestring storefronts to celebrity-founded heavyweights like Steppenwolf, Chicago theater groups are developing a taste for night life apart from the stage.
LOS ANGELES — In a Hollywood strip mall, with a cramped kitchen and a shoestring budget, the tiny restaurant Baroo brought a singular, experimental spirit to this city's food scene.
Determined to succeed, the two women went on to raise "under $1 million" in convertible debt from friends, family and colleagues and grew the business on a shoestring, says Boujarwah.
Though Cruel Intentions received mixed reviews from critics, it was a commercial hit, grossing $75 million worldwide on a shoestring $10.5 million budget, paving its way toward cult classic status.
Working outside the studio system, often on shoestring budgets and on personal projects, they have more leeway to barf their ids up onto the screen, sometimes with deeply bizarre results.
It was a shoestring operation, but with over 200,000 viewers at one point, it might mark the soft debut of a Trump television network rumored to be in the works.
Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, engineers, and product managers are building these futures every day, often on shoestring budgets all in the hope of seeing their solution come to fruition.
But new offices leased by Bank of America in Paris's fashionable 8th arrondissement or Goldman Sachs's in Milan's historic centre do not look like moves made on a shoestring budget.
It was a good deal — salaries for engineers on Mauritius were much cheaper than in the UK, and Pousaz began building his firm, then called Opus Payments, on a shoestring.
"It gave us enough cash in the bank to—if we did all the work ourselves and bought only second-hand gear—open this [restaurant] on a shoestring," explains Stead.
Today, a small group of dedicated individuals and organizations operating on shoestring budgets (or none at all) is working hard to advance the field of contemporary art in the country.
Released in 27, "Halloween" had a shoestring budget, about $22005,20053, and went on to earn $22005 million globally (around $21975 million in today's dollars), a record for an independent movie.
It has done so on a shoestring budget that is made up largely of fund-raising by passionate alums like Presinzano, who set a goal of raising $2117,923 in 292.
There's nothing novel, either, about a ragtag band of performers who pull together to put on a great show on a shoestring budget, as the wrestlers do in the finale.
Vicente Moreno was hired as coach in 2017 and players like midfielder Salva Sevilla and Slovakian defender Martin Valjent were added to a squad put together on a shoestring budget.
It was confusing and wearying for Martin, trying to untangle these complicated and contradictory feelings while also putting together a massive theatrical production in the summer heat on a shoestring budget.
That the film succeeds in telling a child's story on a shoestring budget without ever feeling manipulative or heavy-handed is a testament to Holmer's touch and Hightower's screen-stealing performance.
Operating on what amounts to a shoestring, director James McTeigue deserves some credit for milking a premise the encompasses few characters and even less real estate for not-quite 90 minutes.
The manager of Trump's shoestring delegate operation, Ed Brookover, and his deputies Brian Jack and Alan Cobb, began with a review of the campaign's current delegate-hunting status state by state.
Flannery and Burlingame's days of Megabus austerity may be behind them, but that hasn't dampened their appreciation for the cheap but effective tools and resources they used with a shoestring budget.
Signed to a four-year, $52.5 million contract with the Jets in offseason, Bell made a shoestring catch from Sam Darnold for a 9-yard touchdown midway through the third quarter.
It came together on a shoestring, with donations and a network of volunteers, most of them female artists who brought their power tools and multimedia know-how to two downtown spaces.
Restrictions on abortion access have always disproportionately affected women of color, and reproductive justice groups have been around for decades, often in the form of grassroots organizations working on shoestring budgets.
Several gettable seats for Democrats are in or near the Washington, DC, media market — which makes getting on television exorbitantly expensive for the state legislature campaigns often run on shoestring budgets.
You need Black Christmas, a Canadian horror film made by director Bob Clark in 1974 on a shoestring budget (about $700,000), four whole years before Halloween supposedly kicked off the slasher genre.
Front Burner Lonely Planet's guidebook series, a favorite of travelers on a shoestring, has introduced a compendium of weekend jaunts to 2100 wine regions in 2928 countries, though Bordeaux is not included.
Though Trump's campaign is operating on a shoestring budget compared to past Republican nominees, his campaign is far from efficient, and wasted resources in non-battleground states is just one example. 85033.
These exotic combinations are part of another relevant shift: the rise of posh street food, driven by enlightened licensing authorities, a cohort of shoestring entrepreneurs and diners looking for low-cost sophistication.
AI health startups are attracting vast venture capital (a commercial AI program flagged the Wuhan pneumonia cases one day after Pollack's source), while ProMED's old-fashioned human curation runs on a shoestring.
He is a Baptist minister who opposes gay marriage, a Republican who is critical of his party's leaders in Congress, and a candidate who ran a shoestring campaign against a House incumbent.
A targeting system took months to fine-tune, but a prototype, developed on a shoestring and called Lahav-Or, or Light Blade, was successfully tested by the Israeli border police weeks ago.
By including expensive visual effects and putting famous people in spacesuits, they put a big-budget gloss on a type of movie that most studios are hesitant to make even on a shoestring.
The group that has brought the Dutch construction and agriculture sectors to a standstill is a tiny non-profit, Mobilisation for the Environment (MOB), that operates on a shoestring budget with seven staff.
In recent years the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force (BBATF)—a shoestring group that received just $43,000 in donations in 2015—has been campaigning with great success for such an "Article V" convention.
Whatever it is — no matter how crunched for time you are, or how much of a shoestring budget you're on — you're still probably going to have to get presents for friends and family.
It's not all that uncommon for young people living on a shoestring in Toronto to keep the heat off for some of the coldest months of the year in order to save money.
The company is also launching a Milkshake & Fries flavor—one of Crawford's favorites—which is made with salted Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream mixed with shoestring french fries and milk chocolate malt balls.
As of writing, Alexa ranks Slimg as the 812th most visited website in the United States, well below Imgur (16th) but a surprising level for a deeply niche site on a shoestring budget.
Multiple staffers described the 10-minute call as gratifying for the team, a group of young campaign workers that operated on a shoestring budget and often did more than one job at once.
But that has not deterred candidates like Mr. Mejia, Mr. Cortes Barragan and Ms. Moxley, who are running for Congress armed with little more than shoestring budgets and the strength of their convictions.
Some of them worry the shattered coast, beloved by residents and tourists alike, will draw most of the attention and dollars, leaving places like this one, with shoestring economies to begin with, unattended.
The Hill's comparison of Trump's and Clinton's spending on technology reveals that Clinton is running a campaign that builds on Obama's legacy of investing in tech, while Trump's operation is a shoestring affair.
The shoestring operation needed all the help it could get, and according to her father Lee Allen, she was a hard worker who had devoted herself to Trump early on in the campaign.
"Working in nature, working with living beings, animals and plants, is an essential part of the La Fageda project," said Cristobal Colon, who founded La Fageda on a shoestring in 1982 as a cooperative.
First, though, MLNP will be quintupling their full-time staff — including a CTO, Aaron Sikes — and rebuilding their existing shoestring social-sex site to scale, and as a platform for all of the above.
Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the encrypted chat service's creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a shoestring budget.
Of course, if you're on a shoestring budget and the Blue Lagoon doesn't make the cut, you have some cheaper alternatives, including a $9 one: Swimming in one of Iceland's public pools, or sundlaugs.
The company was apparently on the most shoestring of budgets, holding out hope that it would be able to stay open as late as this week, courtesy of a planned $6.75 million in funding.
This movie somehow blends a crime caper and a romantic comedy into a completely winning story of two kids trying to make a big score — and it does it all on a shoestring budget.
Mr. Bolsonaro's first-round victory was all the more remarkable because he lacked the backing of a major party and campaigned on a shoestring budget, relying mainly on social media to build a base.
He intends to demonstrate just how easily spies, criminals, or saboteurs with even minimal skills, working on a shoestring budget, can plant a chip in enterprise IT equipment to offer themselves stealthy backdoor access.
Even though City Year has a great story, today we operate on a relative shoestring budget of $10 million dollars per year and are only in 26 schools on Chicago's South and West sides.
The pop-up serves Devon-sourced crab burgers (served with kimchi and shoestring fries) at locations across London, as well as summer festivals including Gottwood, How the Light Gets In, and Secret Garden Party.
Yet suddenly, at the very seat of the national government, a puny upstart party running a shoestring anti-corruption campaign had nabbed no fewer than 67 of the 70 seats in the city's main legislature.
Besides, do fans really want a Star Trek prequel that looks like it was filmed in the '60s on a shoestring budget, or a Star Trek show that actually looks like the future it promises?
Commonsense morality perceives a significant difference between passionate young people working to advance a cause on shoestring budgets and adults trying to support a family on minimum wage jobs working for billionaire-owned retail conglomerates.
Daymond John is nothing if not tenacious, and it's that determination that allowed the founder of FUBU to take a shoestring budget and wield it to eventually create an urban streetwear brand worth $210 billion.
Built on a shoestring budget of five million dollars during Governor Lurleen Wallace's administration, it took just five years for Holman prison's perpetually overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions to draw the ire of federal officials.
In and around Silicon Valley, at least 19 commercial self-driving efforts are underway, ranging from big carmakers like Nissan and Ford and technology giants like Google, Baidu and Apple, to shoestring operations like comma.ai.
There are shades of Sputnik here, as Russia startles the world by breaching uncharted territory on a shoestring budget, leaving its rivals scrambling to adjust to a new reality shaped by this nation's geopolitical ambitions.
Created on a shoestring budget of approximately $27,000, Buddies was at once a formally experimental two-character play, a heartbreaking cry for visibility for those afflicted, and a touchstone in the history of LGBTQ+ film.
Nwandu, who started The Shade Room two years ago and has run it on a shoestring since, acknowledges that she has run into copyright issues before, and has "restructured the company" to prevent new ones.
But we also knew that the boldness of the project, the eccentricities of the central characters, and the challenges of hacking together a homebuilt spacecraft on a shoestring budget would make for a compelling read.
But these clunks are essential to the Busch style, and not just because his plays, with the exception of his Broadway hit "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," have usually been niche-taste, shoestring affairs.
My organization, the Association for the Development of Peasant Initiatives (ASSODIP) has for many years worked tirelessly – on a shoestring budget – to help child survivors from Rubaya's mines reintegrate into society and secure alternative work.
I spoke with Youmans by phone about making a movie on a shoestring budget, what he was hoping to say about religious communities and the ways he's struggled with outrunning toxicity in his own relationships.
Andrew Yang's shoestring campaign staff has multiplied along with his fundraising, giving the unconventional businessman the trappings of a conventional, well-resourced presidential campaign in the months before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
The group takes the best of DIY culture and tries it all; the fact that they accomplish all this on a shoestring budget with virtually no funding makes what they do all the more impressive.
"); address the personal touches the actress chose to add (Williams' shoestring choker was perhaps the most hyped internet trend of the evening: "is this something you saw on Instagram, or something you came up with yourself?
"It's remarkable what Andy Palmer has been able to do at Aston Martin on just a shoestring budget (and) in a very short time without diluting the brand," said David Sullivan, a senior analyst with AutoPacific.
But Beckett sees several restaurant entrepreneurs spending very large amounts of their personal wealth to keep up in the competitive dining environment, and it reminds him of when they started their first restaurant on a shoestring.
A well-run team, able to score points despite operating on a comparative shoestring, they paid the price for coming 11th and last in the world championship when their business model required a top 10 finish.
Mr. Trump chose not to assemble those kinds of extensive operations during the primary season, when he prided himself on winning contests on a shoestring and ran a skeletal operation compared with many of his rivals.
It is the coach's quarters, where the former player, Tsai Feng-an, directs a high school baseball program, a shoestring operation that demands long hours and pays him a fraction of his old big-league salary.
Photographs of a Long Island house in East Hampton that Chareau designed attest to his ingenuity on a shoestring budget; it is cobbled together from a Quonset hut and a wall of windows from a greenhouse.
Buttigieg ultimately raised more than $100 million, much of which he poured into Iowa and New Hampshire, where he scaled up the campaign from a shoestring operation to a professional organization — though not without growing pains.
From events once cobbled together on shoestring budgets and hidden in back rooms, alternative commencements like the one held at Harvard have become more mainstream, more openly embraced by universities and more common than ever before.
There were some annoyances: For one, as a 20-something on a shoestring budget, renting supplies and buying the ticket was not cheap, and dragging around a card table and chairs in heels wasn't exactly glamorous.
She didn't work outside the home, but she worked a lot inside it, raising eight kids on a shoestring budget and helping with her husband's gravel and sandpit business in the tiny town of Christiana, Del.
As a result, Bannon is operating on a shoestring budget: According to the Daily Beast, Bannon plans to hire "fewer than 10 full-time staff" at the Movement in the runup to the 2019 EU elections.
He stopped acting, and with a shoestring budget -- including much of his own money -- he started the LoveLife Foundation, an Oakland-based community organization that worked to promote non-violence through the arts and other educational programs.
Before mobile-phone usage exploded across Africa, starting a venture such as this on a shoestring would have been impossible—the costs of communicating with the thousands of smallholders who grow the trees would have been prohibitive.
Founded by Jason Blum in 2000 and originally dedicated to the idea that there's good money to be made from releasing shoestring-budgeted genre films by smart storytellers, Blumhouse hit it big in 2009 with Paranormal Activity.
You'll get the lowdown from a roster of speakers (such as productivity guru Tim Ferriss and former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki), tackling everything from productivity hacks to how to create a stunning website on a shoestring budget.
Mr. Morgan, who began his candidacy last winter while still an undergraduate at Cornell University, is running a shoestring campaign: His most recent filing with the State Board of Elections showed he had exactly $20113,22011 on hand.
Certain popular venues, such as Tavern on the Green and the Central Park Zoo, can be exceptions; their use requires a contract with outside vendors, however, so they probably aren't ideal for those on a shoestring budget.
Some items are reproductions or approximations of what Victorians might have used; living out this experiment on a shoestring budget has meant that they don't live by the hard and fast rules some people imagine they do.
You knew it would be hard — some combination of talent and timing and luck — but you could convince yourself that, if the stars aligned correctly, your shoestring show could make it to the top of the charts.
Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)Smartphones have become an affordable tool for filmmakers on tight budgets, and accessory makers are following suit by giving aspiring directors access to Hollywood-caliber filmmaking tools that won't blow a shoestring budget.
Run on a shoestring budget that's covered by their income from part-time jobs, and with no website, Practice has attracted a word-of-mouth following among young international artists who, like the founders, lead nomadic lives.
Shot in only eight days with a shoestring budget, the movie follows three film students (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard) who venture into a Maryland forest to shoot a documentary on a mythical witch.
Featured Rappers: Shoestring of Dayton Family, Monoxide of Twiztid, Shaggy 2 Dope of ICP, Boondox Psypher Two was filmed essentially concurrently with Psypher One, and Twiztid's Monoxide again steals the show, which leads to an interesting thought experiment.
I wrote and produced and shot and directed and cut and scored and mixed my own films, and did that over a dozen times with shorts (once digital made it doable), all self-funded on half a shoestring.
It's another attempt by YouTube to bolster its original content and native channels by throwing money at talented producers, which is exciting when you think about what Gavin and Dan already managed to create on a shoestring budget.
Many resent that these policies promulgated by Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and others benefit the well-connected and well-to-do while the moms and pops of Main Street keep their businesses alive with shoestring and gum.
But each time I ate there recently to see how it was settling into its second decade, it was Ms. Bloomfield's burger I saw on almost every table, high and proud next to a tumbleweed of shoestring fries.
ON A SHOESTRING In the English university city of Oxford, Paul Newman founded robotics and self-driving company Oxbotica to develop "universal autonomy" software that could be sold to any carmaker, fleet operator, delivery firm or transport company.
Unlike his shoestring 2016 operation, a staff of several dozen has been installed in a fully outfitted office space in Northern Virginia, with a view of the Potomac and walls studded with flat-screen televisions playing cable news.
With a shoestring budget and no organizational backing, its hosts seem to have created something that liberals have spent almost two decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars, futilely searching for: the left's answer to conservative talk radio.
That's why all the billionaire cash behind Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz was wasted, and why Donald Trump, who ran a shoestring campaign directly against the preferences of the Republican billionaire class, is the Republican nominee.
Yet, One Day — which has a 98% Tomatometer score from critics, 91% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and likely comes with a shoestring budget thanks to its multicam production — now follows its most tradition-bucking brethren to the grave.
I sat down with him to talk about how he made the movie with his family and friends on a shoestring budget, why he made his strange and specific choices, and why he hates the color green in movies.
Skonnard says staying in the black on a shoestring budget ultimately helped to make Pluralsight, also founded in 2004, more attractive to venture capitalists that have invested more than $200 million in the company since 1503, according to PitchBook.
Operating on a shoestring relative to their U.S. rivals, the European startups say they have been forced to get creative and focus on cheaper, more tailored technologies that could cope in a heavy downpour on a busy London street.
It's not unheard of for a candidate to win a contested primary and general election on a shoestring budget, and sometimes a weak fundraiser starts pulling in big donations after they make it past a primary, but it's rare.
That could be a boon for Biden, whose weakness up until now has been lackluster fundraising and a shoestring campaign, relative to the national behemoth Bloomberg put together, and relative to the grassroots funded and organized campaign that Sen.
For his part, O'Malley says he plans to cut no deals; his campaign is run on such a shoestring, he says, that he can continue to press forward through New Hampshire even if he gets trounced here on Monday.
Marler, Seyfarth and Cheney worked for the well-staffed and moneyed Rockefeller University in New York; Slobodchikoff conducted his studies on a shoestring budget, compiling funds from the university's biology department, very occasional grants and his own bank account.
In 2012, Mr. Santorum, a Roman Catholic and the father of seven children (an eighth died as an infant), ran his campaign on a shoestring budget, driving around the state in a pickup truck, dressed in his famed sweater vest.
And while Lucas stewed in silence, it was Kurtz' ability to communicate with the hostile London crew of Star Wars in 1976 — and to direct a second unit — that helped the shoestring-budget movie make it to the screen at all.
"Sumner reached out to me and I needed capital, so I invited him to come by to see what we were working on," said Freston, who at the time was running MTV on what he described as a shoestring budget.
Donna Mercado Kim, who has been in politics for over 30 years; Honolulu City Council chair Ernie Martin, who has run a campaign focused on working families; retired federal employee Sam Puletasi, who is running a shoestring campaign; and Rep.
The tropics are particularly underserved, with only two year-round monitoring sites: a NOAA station in Hawaii and one overseen by Dr Nisbet on Ascension Island, a British dependency in the South Atlantic, which is run on a shoestring budget.
Although Taiwo is one of the top competitors in the world in his event, like many athletes bound for Rio he made it on a shoestring budget, often working several jobs and receiving subsidies from friends, family, and governing bodies.
" Why it matters: "With a shoestring budget and no organizational backing, its hosts seem to have created something that liberals have spent almost two decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars, futilely searching for: the left's answer to conservative talk radio.
Ms. Kim and Mr. Garcia are the entirety of the label's full-time design team, and Ms. Kim, accustomed to a large support staff at Oscar de la Renta, was finding it difficult to run a company on a shoestring budget.
When VICE's Beckett Mufson tweeted at Riley with his own take on why Sorry to Bother You may have been snubbed, the director responded with even more behind-the-scenes intel on how he made the film on a shoestring budget.
While Sanders's canvasses are shut down here and elsewhere, Biden always had a shoestring operation in post-Super Tuesday states, and he has done best with voters who have made up their minds in the last days before an election.
I can attest, as I eventually became the manager who would apply for grants and pay the bills at the adult day care, that many programs for seniors are already operating on a shoestring budget from a patchwork of funding sources.
To see whether the fungus we had found would produce a glow, we looked for the dark, stringy infestation known as a rhizomorph, or shoestring rot, because that's what it looks like, and that's what it does to the wood.
They fled countries with dysfunctional governments, oppressive rulers, shoestring democracies, ethnic warfare and mass violence, and have found themselves rubbing elbows and bumpers in a wealthy Texas city where potholes, traffic, mosquitoes and pension reform are some of the biggest concerns.
Big Heads Cardboard Cutout (3-ft), available on Amazon, from $44.99This terrifying cardboard cutout has all the dazzle and grandiosity of a surprise flight to Paris, with the low price that fits a shoestring budget and/or a new relationship.  
LF Yoenis Cespedes (leg cramp) did not play Tuesday after he came up limping when he almost made a shoestring catch in the last of the ninth on the game-winning hit by Ryan Raburn of the Nationals on Monday.
The dream of bringing more manufacturing back to America would be eroded by the loss of this historic area, where American craftsmanship thrives and where young designers can build businesses on a shoestring while working alongside craftspeople from around the world.
On a visit during a trip to Boise, I ordered the russet potato as homestyle fries, gold potato curly fries, red potato po' balls, purple shoestring fries, as well as sweet potato and yam fries, and tried all the sauces.
In my very subjective opinion, especially considering that most potatoes had up to three cut options, the yam fries were in first place, followed by the sweet potato fries, russet homestyle fries, red po'balls, gold curly fries, and purple shoestring fries.
Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the movie and was one of its producers, told me that the reasons were partly monetary: "Dirty Dancing" was made on a shoestring and New York State's work rules would have made it expensive to film there.
The potential elimination of about $445 million in annual funding, which helps local TV and radio stations subscribe to NPR and Public Broadcasting Service programming, could be devastating for affiliates in smaller markets that already operate on a shoestring budget.
It's fine in the short term, since he started out entirely shoestring and not having a finance base ... but I also believe after a good second quarter, a good third quarter, then he will have to shift focus back to the early states.
"I think these are really good things to talk about with an 11-year-old boy, but I hate that they come up because of one of our presidential nominees," said Engelman, co-founder of the digital platform Mommy on a Shoestring.
Mr. Bolsonaro's meteoric rise is all the more remarkable because he campaigned on a shoestring budget, relying largely on social media, while his rivals enjoyed generous public funding and coveted slots on television and radio, which are awarded based on party size.
"We have not had a year in our country where we've not had a public health emergency to address and we're continuing to do it on a shoestring budget," said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA).
Sanders' 2016 campaign started as a shoestring operation and expanded on the fly as he gained momentum; he'd enter 2020 with an infrastructure and network far larger than those of any other Democrat, and with many of the kinks already worked out.
"The New Edition Story" is, by far, the best of the recent spate of black pop biopics, miles beyond the shoestring Lifetime entries about Toni Braxton and Aaliyah, films that have contributed to an air of lowered expectations for projects of this nature.
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump's first campaign finance report in July 21.7 revealed a shoestring operation run by a handful of loyalists working from a two-room suite in Trump Tower and funded almost entirely by $20163 million in loans from the candidate.
"Within a few years of starting Playboy on a shoestring after begging and borrowing a few thousand dollars, Hefner became a serious, influential figure in modern culture," wrote academic and Hef biographer Steven Watts, in 903's Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream.
The Ad Campaign After running his campaign on a shoestring for months, thanks to the news media's obsessive attention, Donald J. Trump has released his first campaign commercial, promising to stop illegal immigration and defeat the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Outperforming 'Star Wars' "Ten Years" — produced on a shoestring budget by a largely volunteer cast and crew — only opened at one movie theater in the city late last year but it outperformed smash global hit "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," at the arthouse Broadway Cinematheque.
" He says that even if this continues, using the figures that underpin many of the FIRE movement's assumptions, "it's not going to be any fun living on a shoestring budget and watching your nest egg decline in value by 30 percent to 50 percent.
It may feel sometimes as though Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Star has always been with us, but in fact it was this acclaimed 218 indie, adapted on a shoestring budget by writer-director Debra Granik from a 22016 novel, that introduced her to the world.
Co-creators and stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer independently produced Broad City as a short-form web series from 20153 to 2011, working their connections in the improv world of Upright Citizens Brigade to land top-notch talent despite working on a shoestring budget.
The program was already operating on a shoestring budget before the Fiji Rugby Union went into a financial crisis in 2014, when World Rugby, the sport's world governing body, temporarily suspended funding after the union failed to make changes to its governance and finances.
In the home-computing era, it's long been easy enough to make competent sounding recordings on a shoestring budget, but so much music is served best in its sloppiest form—its component parts burned to shit and spilling off the side of the plate.
Still, some analysts think that Mr. Bolsonaro, 63, could defy the projections and emerge victorious on Sunday night despite — or perhaps because of — his lack of support from a major political party and a shoestring budget that relied on social media to build a base.
Waits stretched hours for the chance to eat Ms. Bloomfield's famous burger with Roquefort cheese and shoestring fries (priced at $29 on Sunday's final dinner menu) and to spot celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jay-Z as they were whisked upstairs to a private room.
Shot in 17 days on a shoestring budget ("You could make 100 of these films for any normal budget studio film," said Hartnett), the film—from director Anthony Jerjen and screenwriter Andrew Crabtree—tackles the realities of how America's catastrophic opioid crisis affects individual lives.
And that's another lesson of TIFF: horror has become a favorite genre among young filmmakers looking to break into cinema, because, with a good script and the right cast, it's easier to do horror well on a shoestring budget than it is to do most genres.
"MY SHIT doesn't work in the playoffs", Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, famously said in "Moneyball", the Michael Lewis book and subsequent Brad Pitt film about how he succeeded in Major League Baseball (MLB) on a shoestring budget by playing the percentages.
"It's hard to break into the State Department, but it's easy to break into a think tank with a shoestring budget, then get information that's ultimately being provided to or circulated around the government," said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company.
Last season, a club of modest means and limited expectations — its roster put together on a shoestring budget, its home located in an unremarkable provincial town — emerged as a genuine contender, overthrowing its country's traditional giants as it sought the first league title in its history.
With a shoestring budget of about 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, or about $64,000, and a limited theater release, the film has raked in more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars, finding resonance with present-day fears that local culture and liberties are being threatened under Chinese rule.
Now operating as the Indigenous School for the Arts, Community of Learning and Foundation (based in Quito, Ecuador) these artists have relentlessly championed the BIAI's autonomy on a shoestring budget by creatively navigating the world of politics, local art scenes, and Indigenous cultures around the globe.
The sandwich, which consists of stock-drenched ham hock, crispy shoestring chips, a decadent fried egg, vibrant piccalilli, and plenty of malt vinegar mayo to cut all that unctuous fat, happens to be the first Halley ever created for his North London restaurant, Max's Sandwich Shop.
By 9, Gordon Sorfleet, once Bury's media manager — a role that always encompassed far more at a shoestring operation like Bury than it would at one of Manchester's giant clubs, 20 minutes or so down the road — is in, and so is Martin Kirkby, the bar manager.
Made in three days on a shoestring budget, Mister America is a much-needed alternative political satire in a time where every two-bit comic hosts a Daily Show knock-off, and SNL attempts to address our most dire issues as a nation via hackneyed sketches featuring Alec Baldwin.
A story about a young girl and her father collecting a valuable resource on an alien world, the short took its costume and design cues from classic 1970s science fiction films, but replicated them on a shoestring budget, with the filmmakers shooting in the rainforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Its meandering, unbroken shot and Abstract's letterman jacket also read as winks at The Social Experiment's "Sunday Candy" video, which was filmed in one take to adhere to a shoestring budget, and, more importantly, it directly preceded Chance the Rapper's ascension to the world's first never-signed pop star.
The oft-repeated observation that "the cream always rises to the top" functioning like a kind of mantra at Podcast Movement, an expression of the scene's unshakable belief that any show that's good enough—even if produced on a shoestring by a total unknown—will find its audience.
" Dr. Melinda Buntin, Chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine on those who neither have the money for large care expenses nor qualify for free or low-income clinics: "The middle class has extraordinarily expensive care...and [they're] doing things on a shoestring.
On a shoestring budget, Downey (who directed in collaboration with the ensemble) has created an ambience of surreal comedy and actual dread, helped by Brian Lady's stark lighting and Downey's own suggestive sound design — a music cue going around and around in an eerie loop is especially effective.
Semiotext(e), founded in 21996 as a journal by Sylvère Lotringer, whom Kraus later married, was a shoestring operation that had a loyal following in the art world and some corners of academia for having introduced the French theorists Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Paul Virilio to American readers.
"Moving the agency that is supposed to provide stewardship for student loan borrowers to an agency that is working on a shoestring with a skeletal crew strikes me as a recipe for a policy disaster," said Sarah Bloom Raskin, who was the deputy Treasury Secretary under President Obama.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BOSTON — Founded in 2100 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.
As Vanessa Williamson and I documented in our book The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, roughly a quarter of a million conservative citizen activists managed to use largely voluntary methods and shoestring resources to create some 900 regularly meeting local Tea Party groups from 2009 through 2011.
Because harm reduction is often seen as controversial—some argue that it "enables" drug use, even though research shows that participants are more likely to recover than those who don't access these programs—significant funding would help boost its legitimacy and sustain groups that often run on a shoestring budget.
Under Carter, government agencies operated on a shoestring budget during shutdowns but didn't actually cease to function until after 1980, when then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued legal opinions finding that in order for the federal government to not violate the 1884 Antideficiency Act, agencies truly had to shut down.
On a shoestring budget and an idea, Hefner and his associates in 1953 founded Playboy, which became a popular brand almost overnight — not just publishing one of the most well-known men's magazines, but launching a media empire that spanned TV, politics and just about all areas of the zeitgeist.
After winning the presidential nomination on a shoestring budget and with fewer paid staff members than the average candidate for governor, he has been visibly reluctant to help build much in the way of national campaign infrastructure, sending a clear message to his fellow Republicans: This fall, you're on your own.
As with so many aspiring artists who saw the 1968 independent "Night of the Living Dead," that movie's director, Mr. Romero, was an inspiration for Mr. Hooper, proving that a few friends on a shoestring budget far from Hollywood could turn a visceral little movie into a reputation-making hit.
Streets previously almost barren of art spaces—in Greenwich Village, on the Lower East Side, and in what came to be christened by real-estate agents the East Village—sprouted do-it-themselves co-op and shoestring galleries, some with the life spans of mayflies but others in for long hauls.
In Silicon Valley one grows so used to seeing enormous sums of money expended on things barely categorizable as irritations, let alone serious problems, that it is a bit bewildering to be presented with the opposite: existential problems being addressed on shoestring budgets by founders actually passionate about their domain.
Often leftist in ideology, volunteer groups work on shoestring budgets, but, unconstrained by the hierarchy and bureaucracy found in many NGOs and government organizations, they're able to provide many supplies one would expect to come from these larger, better-funded entities—in Samos, they supply toilet paper, diapers, milk, clothing, and sleeping bags.
Ms. Nixon and Mr. Williams are the underdogs in the contest and the backing of Indivisible, with 400 registered chapters in New York scattered all across the state, according to the group, provides them a potential network of supporters for her shoestring candidacy to tap into during the race's final six-plus weeks.
According to the documentary Best of Enemies (airing on October 3 as part of PBS's election coverage, and streaming online October 4 through November 2), that was the point of no return for TV election coverage — even though things were on such a shoestring that the ABC set literally collapsed during the RNC.
Photo: APIt's been known for some time that the White House has been considering cutting off funding to the International Space Station by 2025 to free up resources for NASA, an agency President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts back to the moon but has also proposed should make do with a shoestring budget.
That explains some of the early response to J.D. Dillard's Sleight, a shoestring-budgeted indie film about Bo Wolfe, a black street magician (rapper and Collateral Beauty actor Jacob Latimore) navigating the L.A. drug-dealing scene and drawing on his magic and engineering skills to take care of his little sister after their mother's death.
"We conceived Michael this year as being the director of an independent film that has a shoestring budget that the whole crew is non-union guys that he just picked up from somewhere and everything's going wrong and he's just desperately trying to hold the production together," Schur, best known for Parks and Recreation, explained.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has taken command of the Democratic primary for president despite running on a shoestring budget in a contest where Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised more money in February alone, $47.6 million, than Mr. Biden had spent in his previous five months combined, new federal records show.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has taken command of the Democratic primary for president despite running on a shoestring budget in a contest where Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised more money in February alone, $47.6 million, than Mr. Biden had spent in his previous five months combined, new federal records show.
Pyongyang, indeed, considering the fact that Kim is building his nuclear and missile arsenals on a shoestring budget — his economy is one-third the size of Ethiopia — is likely to face a much tougher road to gain the capabilities he is looking for, like hitting all of the U.S. homeland with a nuclear weapon.
Gallop, a former advertising executive turned force of nature, has been running her social-sex site Make Love Not Porn on a shoestring for several years now, with no budget for marketing, and only one paid full-time employee ("MadamCurator" Sarah Beall), they've attracted nearly half a million members and pulled in close to $1 million of revenue.
Norman Lear's Netflix update of "One Day At a Time" features Penelope Álvarez, a gun-toting Cuban-American single mother and Army veteran, struggling to raise her son and lesbian daughter in the grit of Los Angeles on a shoestring budget with the help of her immigrant mom, played with the incomparable EGOT talent of Rita Moreno.
" He developed his characters at resorts in the Pocono Mountains and appeared Off Broadway in "The Shoestring Revue" and on television shows including "The Jack Benny Program," on which he leapt onstage and loudly corrected Benny as he told a joke, and "The Twilight Zone," on which he played an unhappy car salesman, before his break on "Laugh-In.
At an event in South Carolina on Monday, Buttigieg described how former President Jimmy Carter's famously shoestring general election campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1976 relied on post-Watergate changes to the Federal Election Campaign Act that allowed presidential campaigns to receive up to $20 million in public money in the general election as long as they raised no private money.
There's even one diner scene that I'm pretty sure is a direct callback to Garner's "I'm not a good person" speech in 2004, and it's moving enough to make me tear up in the middle of a campy teen horror-comedy made on such a shoestring budget, you can almost always see patches of cover-up on the actors' chins.
Brazil Election Results: Far-Right Candidate Heads to Runoff After Missing Outright Win The rise of far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil may sound familiar to Americans: Mr. Bolsonaro's first-round victory was all the more remarkable because he lacked the backing of a major party and campaigned on a shoestring budget, relying mainly on social media to build a base.
Gasperini's players leapt on advertising boards to celebrate what would, even without the dramatic circumstances, have been a rare, admirable achievement: taking an unheralded, small-town club — its budget a fraction of that available to Europe's cash-soaked elite, its squad made up of homegrown hopefuls and shoestring purchases, its stadium too crumbling to host games — into the last 16 of the Champions League.
Also, it's hard to ignore the fact that, on a relative shoestring, SpaceX and Blue Origin have been making meaningful advances (such as self-landing reusable boosters, and the cost-per-kilogram-to-orbit of the Falcon Heavy) which NASA has failed to make directly with its $19 billion budget — which in turn, as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield points out, is less than twice what America spends on Halloween every year.
"Dogtooth" (2009), made in Greece on a shoestring budget and subsequently nominated for a best foreign-language film Oscar, depicts life on an isolated family estate, where three adult children live under the cultlike control of their parents, who teach them that the airplanes passing overhead are actually tiny plastic toys and that no child is old enough to leave home until their upper incisor (or "dogtooth") falls out on its own.

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