Last week, they irritated the president by introducing a raft of amendments to a bill to phase out costly subsidies.

上周，保守派对逐步废除高昂补贴的法案提出了大量的修改意见，这激怒了内贾德。

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Like car owners, managers faced with a cash crunch are also keen to get as much extra mileage as possible out of their existing equipment rather than buying costly new gear.

像有车族那样，面临现金紧张的管理者也力求使现有设备尽可能的运转而不是购买昂贵的新部件。

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Fortunately, both for Apple's bottom line and for the developers out there wishing to take advantage of Snow Leopard's new frameworks and technologies, this is not a costly upgrade.

幸运的是，对于苹果的底线和开发者利用雪豹新构架和技术的愿望，这不是一次昂贵的升级。

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Brazilians spy a ruse to back out of costly contracts.

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McDonald's, which has more than 14, 000 U.S. restaurants, performed well throughout most of the economic downturn by sticking to its strategy of remodeling and tidying up restaurants and rolling out a steady stream of new menu items at a range of prices from inexpensive snack wraps to more costly fruit smoothies intended to appeal to more consumers.

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It will always be a costly endeavor to stake out a piece of real estate on Manhattan island.

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