It offers no fitness advantage to its host, and is likely instead to exact a cost.
Russia can be expected to exact a steep price in transit fees and pilotage.
Europeans are likely to want Britain in the system, though they will probably exact a price.
And networks can exact a few extra sponsor dollars, up to a 20% premium in a spot-market buy.
Getting social networking wrong can exact a price, as Chris Murphy notes in a post on Informationweek.
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As the gatekeeper, he is in the position to exact a toll from anyone who seeks to pass.
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All the time, our procrastination can exact a steep toll on our finances, career, business, relationships and health.
For now Spitzer seems intent on getting maximum mileage out of his lawsuit, seeking to exact a huge financial tribute from the company.
Attempting to exact a pound of flesh from a company without evidence of consumer harm would delegitimize the FTC for decades to come.
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Plainly, open markets, like other policy measures, exact a price.
If SARS takes root in Africa, hitting populations where AIDS has already weakened immune systems, it could exact a devastating death toll and set back economic development for decades.
But author and Conservative peer Lord Dobbs accused Mr Clegg of inventing a link between constituency boundaries and Lords reform as an excuse to "exact a little retribution" from his coalition partners.
Mr Gorton is a possible secretary of the interior in a Bush administration, which would give him the chance to exact a little revenge in battles over the environment of the country's north-west.
Given the relative size of our imbalances, the manner in which they are being financed, and the diminished state of our manufacturing sector, higher interest rates and a weaker dollar will exact a much greater toll.
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But unless you are very careful and disciplined, it is perilously easy for the noise to overwhelm the signal and for the tumult of your inbox to exact a significant cognitive overhead on your daily productivity.
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In this sense, and many others, the 3.11.11 disaster will continue to be exact a heavy toll on Japan, even as its heart-rending human and material toll in the Tohoku region grow dimmer in sight and memory.
But we got a ways to go, especially in the hardest hit regions like Las Vegas, where there are just too many blocks littered with brown lawns and "for sale" signs, too many mortgage holders are underwater, and where job losses continue to exact a terrible toll.
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If she is, and a photographer snapped her at the exact moment a doctor told her the bad news, I apologize.
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The hand-held SkyGuard GPS device alerts a teacher to the exact location of a pupil, and allows two-way communication.
And just last month, as Adelman predicted, an appellate court ruled that the feds couldn't exact such a massive monetary penalty.
And the price he wants to exact for a veto is prohibitive.
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Mrs Beckett said she expected the party would have delivered its manifesto commitments by the next election although she refused to give a commitment on the exact timetabling of a referendum.
These days it takes Google just half a second to report that it gets 6.8 million hits for the single phrase liberal media (though you're best off taking the exact figure a bit cautiously).
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And though landmarks such as the central market clock tower may help you orientate yourself somewhat, chances are a map of your exact wanderings after a day out at Chatuchak would resemble most closely a plate of pad thai noodles.
While Mr. Conway keeps the exact technique a secret, he said this recipe will do. (It does.) He recommends using up the infusion within a year to avoid oxidation, though it's doubtful you'll have any left after a week.
In fact, a black market is the exact antithesis of a free market.
According to the FDA, the technology for a company to create an exact replica of a biologic drug does not exist.
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