The individual figures are less important than the overall picture, which illustrates the limitations of production on a small farm and the unavoidable expenses.

Whatever your own essentials, some of the following items will certainly feature on your list of unavoidable expenses:

Goldome officials say that much of the money is going for unavoidable expenses, such as mailings to depositors, proxy and other printing, and legal and underwriting fees.

But beyond the unavoidable expenses, the Council is also adding about 19 new staff members solely to improve its ability to investigate city agencies and to draft new legislation, said Marc V. Shaw, the Council budget director.

Most of the costs appear to be the unavoidable expenses of the Pope's ability to generate huge crowds: stadium leases, liability insurance, rentals of sound equipment, chairs and portable toilets, construction of altars and television scaffolds.