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Harlander is eager to bankroll Victor’s elaborate and expensive scheme, though not without having an agenda of his own.

Even the Federal Reserve can’t make a bad business good — it can only make it expensive to let it fail.

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At the same time, the council wrote, Edison had cut power to neighborhoods served by wires that had been undergrounded, an expensive upgrade that Edison has said would prevent the need for the shutoffs.

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The cost of child care in New York City is expensive.

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It’s true stocks are undeniably expensive, prompting comparisons to the dot-com bubble of a quarter-century ago.

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