It would be best to bring QFAs fully onto the budget (that is, to “budgetize” the QFAs).

[T]he Japanese have been intervening to hold down the value of the yen, while Washington has been adopting a policy of benign neglect towards the dollar.

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Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.