The Better Care Fund, which is due to take almost £2bn out of hospitals' £40bn-odd budgets from April 2015 in order to set up new services elsewhere, is a particular problem.
Missouri is in a particularly odd stalemate: budgets have been passed for everything except education, but the state Constitution dictates that money go to schools before other agencies, raising questions about whether the government could operate if a school appropriations bill is not signed by Tuesday.
That surely makes it odd to fix its budget now for so many years ahead.
That puts an odd spin on the budget being written now, at a time when the state's economy is pretty good.
And on foreign aid, who'll notice a few odd billions in a budget of $2.77 trillion?Optimists point out that America has always had a vocal isolationist minority.
The place is not unlike any student flat the world over, with its mishmash of furniture, piles of washing-up, brightly painted walls and the odd political poster, plus budget artistic touches such as the seashells that hang from the bathroom ceiling.
Ever since 2010, an odd choreography has developed around budget time between George Osborne and the media.
"It's sort of odd," Mr. Page, the city's budget director, said yesterday.
However, the reason that Ryan's claim is decidedly odd is that his own budget plans included similar anticipated savings from Medicare.
In a later study, Hauglustaine et al. (1999) utilized a photochemical box model in conjunction with the MLOPEX 2 measurements to evaluate the processes and species controlling photochemistry and to provide insight into the O3, odd nitrogen, and odd hydrogen budget in the FT over the Pacific.
