Seeking some joy from my $4,000 outlay, I heartily agreed.
Losing my job as a senior program officer at a nonprofit would be equally harrowing whether renting or owning, and besides, I was reducing my monthly outlays from when I had been a renter, to roughly $800 from about $900.
So according to my reckoning, their outlay was on travel to and from the resort, ski hire and passes, and lunch on the slopes.
So I took up running, largely because it required virtually no financial outlay on my part: if, as seemed likely, I packed it in after four attempts, at least I wouldn't be left with a direct debit to cancel or a spare room full of kit in mint condition save for the inch of dust.
"By my estimation, the maximum outlay for Blue Sky would have been in the region of $850,000 around £550,0000).
The financial outlay necessary to computerize my practice would be impossible for me unless I laid off members of my staff or took no pay myself.
My circle of readers was now enlarging, consequently also the outlay on coffee at the Hundred Feet Road restaurant; I had to seek my mother's help for more pocket money, and she provided it ungrudgingly - an increase from three to five rupees - and that was adequate to forestall any possible hostile reactions and buy favourable opinion.
In the published transcript of the tapes, Mr. dos Santos Neto, the fugitive judge, boasts of using "my connection" to persuade the planning minister to authorize the outlay.
Specifically, many casually accepted they could no longer participate in social activities, school trips, or hobbies that required a cash outlay: I've sort of stopped asking for my art supplies as well now.
And they say, 'I'd rather deal with the annual premium than my parents dissipating their assets.' " With that kind of outlay, the children had better be sure that they are the beneficiaries — and that their parents don't spend all the money on themselves.
