The family also had to pay for the cost of cleaning up of his sister's home following her murder and for the cost of her funeral.

BBC: Julia Pemberton

The truth is that nobody knows how much the cost of cleaning up would be.

ECONOMIST: Energy policy and the environment

He said he couldn't calculate the cost of cleaning up the Melissa virus and its variants.

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The fight was over which insurance carrier, if any, would indemnify the State for the cost of cleaning up this toxic waste site.

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The IMF said the money raised should be channelled into a special fund that could be used to pay for the cost of cleaning up future banking crises.

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Developing countries complain, with some justification, that they should not have to bear the cost of cleaning up a problem that has been caused mainly by the rich nations.

ECONOMIST: A cooling off period

Of its 10.2% deficit in 2012, 3.2 percentage points was due to the cost of cleaning up its banking system, which has been decimated by loans made to property developers and speculators during the last decade's housing bubble that have since proved unrepayable.

BBC: Business

One Osaka project, to build a Universal Studios theme park, has been dogged by allegations that the city has been helping one of its private-sector partners, Sumitomo Metal Industries, to avoid the cost of cleaning up the contaminated land on which the park is to be built.

ECONOMIST: Japan

Britain's Ministry of Defence has agreed to negotiate with the lawyers for 220 Kenyan tribespeople who claim that the British army's carelessness in cleaning up after recent military exercises in the country has cost them their hands, feet or legs.

ECONOMIST: Middle-East mire

If we are right, then the true cost of pension consultant corruption is enormous and cleaning up the consulting business should be of paramount importance to the country.

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