The expense of maintaining the lighthouses continued to drag on the coast guard budget.
As one newspaper put it, the police were using pile drivers to hunt rats and the expense could not long continue.
But the boom is unlikely to continue, even as those expenses continue to rise.
The city still faces serious long-term fiscal problems, mostly because expenses continue to rise faster than revenues.
But, the legal expenses would continue to cut the amount of any award the certificate holders share in.
Home remedies have become increasingly popular as the expense and hassle of conventional medicine continues to rise.
The dominant expense in many campaigns continues to be television advertising.
The wages and the expenses continue, but business has dropped way off.
Digital's expenses continued to decline during the quarter, dropping to $1.06 billion, from $1.13 billion last year.
Those expenses will continue to have to be paid, somehow.