The view that greater choice favours the rich at the expense of the poor gets no backing.

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In their view, rich international firms are getting richer at the expense of India's poor.

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We view this internally as a very large one-time expense and then our job forever after will be to continually convert these subscribers into customers and to make sure our customers keep buying from us.

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Small banks, and the politicians who speak for them in Congress, take the opposite view: that Basel 2 will benefit big banks at their expense.

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The scientists' union Prospect echoed this view, warning that the new council must not be at the expense of existing research or the nation's core scientific capability.

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That is a defensible view, just 48 hours after the resignation of Mark Hurd amid charges of abusing his expense account in conjunction with improper relations with a female contractor.

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Banks, for their part, view the fees charged for capital-raising in part as a pay-off for the effort and expense put into their corporate-broking work.

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