As an ally it embarked in late 1941 on a program of massive military and financial aid to the hard-pressed Nationalist government.

Beyond the financial effects on hard-pressed local governments, yesterday's snow meant another round of disruptions for commuters and other travelers.

Privatization can be the answer for hard-pressed governments.

The hard-pressed government imposed a new 2% sales tax to cover the promissory notes that had been given to teachers in lieu of salaries.

For generations, states had banned the sale of liquor on Sundays, but hard-pressed governments now believe that allowing people to buy liquor on Sunday will send money pouring into state coffers.

Most of that is for public works projects that hard-pressed Asian governments might now postpone.

But all manner of other things were canceled as Suffolk carried out the first furloughs ordered by any of the many hard-pressed governments in the metropolitan area.

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

A certain subplanetary government, hard-pressed by its neighbors, wanted us to engineer a race of super-soldiers for them.

It ignores the fact that both the Cuomo and Weprin proposals would provide compensatory aid to hard-pressed local governments.