Mr Biden himself had filled out only a sparse ledger of ideas for a second term, usually under the banner of " finishing the job" , leaving plenty of room for his successor.
About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses.
The study's authors dredged for detailed data on sales and purchases (from transaction ledgers) and on rents and maintenance costs (from rent books) over the period from 1901 to 1983.
But even in the bloodless world of accounting, " goodwill" has a place on the ledger (the left side; it's an asset) and the U.S. may be writing down a loss.
When I visited Fleming at his house on the outskirts of Anstruther, he opened his ledger to see how many haddocks they were getting through at the Wee Chippy in the offseason.
The newspaper wrote that the technology behind Bitcoins, called blockchain, is " an almost incorruptible digital ledger that can be used to record practically anything that can be digitized ..."
And the last count of the indictment points interestingly to a relationship between Allen Weisselberg and Donald Trump, that Weisselberg had an entry deleted in Donald Trump's ledger.