One of the biggest subsidies, which will never show up as a bailout expense, is the Fed's maintaining short-term interest rates at close to zero.

最大的补助之一就是美联储将短期利率维持在0附近，而这绝不会显现在救助资金中。

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Responsible for the purchase of office supplies and for recording and maintaining office expense records;

负责进行购买办公室相关的各种用品，和负责记录并保存各种办公室花费记录；

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But he also notes the expense of maintaining so many troops.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

As for France, despite the expense of maintaining this outpost, it is clearly reluctant to leave the Pacific.

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Hence, in turn, our own notion that a white elephant is a valuable possession which cannot be disposed of, even though the expense of maintaining it is out of all proportion to its usefulness or worth.

BBC: No white elephants in this herd

This will benefit not only unions, who will build and operate these systems, but companies like Siemens who push for greater rail expansions at the expense of maintaining and improving such critical infrastructure as roads.

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