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Of course, this plays into our hands because filming in Eastern Europe is so much cheaper than shooting in America and we're having to do this on a shoe-string budget as it is.
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Billy Farrell Lucas McMaster, Milly McAskin and Sienna Lightman Various adorable and impeccably behaved children were provided with adorable Lanvin-ized chef hats and aprons as well as a smorsgasbord of decorative material—Ladurée macarons, gumdrops, shoe-string licorice—with which to turn their shabby gingerbread houses into maisons en pain d'épice.
Art of Home Building, Gingerbread Style Marshall Heyman 2011
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Butler said the signs are an in-kind donation, noting they are running a campaign on a shoe-string budget.
Campaign finance office to look into 'Write Fenty In' signs Washington Post Editors 2010
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Since then, however, the channel has struggled on a shoe-string budget to build original programming and still relies heavily on first-run movies to fill the channel's schedule.
BBC Gives Lift to Starz Lauren A. E. Schuker 2011
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For a Cause "Empowering women on a G-string, rather than a shoe-string" was the strange if catchy slogan on the invitation for Thursday's first Lingerie New York couture fashion show presented by the beach resort Freedom Bay St. Lucia.
Lingerie Priya Rao 2010
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Then he had to scale down to a few loyal advisors and run on a shoe-string budget.
Let 1,000 flowers bloom -- and a dozen presidental contenders Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Bush-Cheney-Rove (BCR) went into Afghanistan with a great U.S. military force but executed the war on Rumsfeld's shoe-string budget.
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In the case of this anthology, however, where the editors were for hires for a book packager which then turns the anthology over on a shoe-string budget to the publisher for distribution and there are multiple authors, the chance of author imput on the cover was going to be nil.
[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010
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You'd think that, given its own internal disarray, the most powerful newspaper in the world would understand the management problems of an anti-poverty group -- one that runs on a shoe-string budget and whose staff earns relatively low salaries.
Peter Dreier: Why ACORN Fell: The Times , Lies, and Videotape Peter Dreier 2010
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I have never even heard of a shoe-string sized frite before.
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