People around the country are feeling an economic pinch.

The private sector is feeling the economic pinch before fund-raising has even begun.

Another factor is the economic pinch, which causes travelers to pick less expensive places.

Simply avoiding a recession would spare the young (and almost everyone else) from a temporary economic pinch.

There were tentative signs today that Iraq was beginning to feel the economic pinch.

Are modernization and strengthening of conventional forces achievable given the economic pinch?

"Some are feeling an economic pinch, self doubt, that we are being passed in international affairs by other countries," Steinberg said.

Of course, given the economic pinch these days, charity isn't on the top of anyone's agenda.

Israel, too, is feeling the East-West thaw and economic pinch.

In an economic pinch, the mailbox and the phone booth were hardly necessary.