The trouble with that hope is that those who confess would probably have to bow out of public life as the price of their new-found honesty.
Arthur Phillips's first novel, which documents the life of John Price, a young American who quit Los Angeles for Budapest circa 1990, comes with much advance praise.
As celebrity weeklies are forced to compete with a growing number of entertainment shows and tabloid-style blogs to chronicle the minutia of celebrity life, the price tags associated with these types of private moments have skyrocketed.
In one of those coincidences that look corny in novels but happen all the time in real life, the price of oil hit an all-time high this week just as President Bush was signing the new energy bill into law.
Using LEDs endows the light with a long life and a hefty price tag.
It's also bad for the country, long-term, because all the evidence suggests that individuals who have a period of unemployment at the start of their working life pay a heavy price for that bad luck.
As much as purist free-marketers hate to admit it, when making a judgment on who should perform your surgery -a decision that can be the difference between life and death- price shopping is simply not the best way to go.
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For one thing, if traffic is to continue to grow, as both the companies and the government hope it will, then the risk of more crashes and more lives lost will rise, and so the price per life of this investment will fall.
Whether the sale of gametes diminishes the value of life by putting a price on it and whether the contribution of women to this growing market is adequately compensated are the kinds of questions about which you could set thousands of angels into motion on the head of a pin.
Callisthenes paid the price of his life for his opposition, and Arrian clearly sympathised with his stand.
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And, within weeks, it had upgraded the iPod, with 12 hours of battery life, and dropped the price.
Every American adult gripes about the price of daily life, from a gallon of milk to a posh dinner.
One display case, called "The Price of a Life, " brings the whole business down to a microeconomic scale, and features perhaps the most disturbing artifacts.
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And yet prosecuting price gougers makes life harder for storm victims.
Of course, all of these exclusions from income come with a price: since life insurance is considered a personal expense, you cannot deduct the premiums you pay for life insurance policies on your federal income tax return.
Her criticism has been echoed by fellow Republicans in direct attacks on Britain's NHS. In an article, Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said British healthcare was run by "Orwellian" bureaucrats who put a price tag on life.
They're ready to pay the price for their personal life but not for a communal one.
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In any case, it looks like a small price to pay for life and limb.
The newer drugs are more expensive but Robert argues there should not be a price on quality of life.
Tracking back to Google, Droid-Life notes that Google's price protection policy might have you covered for some cash-back, as well.
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The Price sisters were given life sentences and went on hunger strike, demanding to be allowed to serve their jail term in Ireland.
And in the face of the internet, their informational advantage is shrinking everyday as evidenced by, among other things, the price of coffins and life insurance premiums.
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It is easier to preach virtue from a foreign capital than to vote for it or practise it, when the price may be your life or that of your children.
Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.
"The price surge of daily life items has caused mental pressure on those wage earners who are sensitive to prices, " said Wang Shuixiong, a sociologist with Renmin University in Beijing.
We honor them here in this White House -- designed by an Irish architect -- and in our national hearts. (Applause.) Because they were the price of a new life.
"Some consumers felt that communications providers should not be able to impose price increases during the life of a contract, and, if they do, the consumer should be able to exit the contract without penalty, " Ofcom explained.
"By incorporating Seagate's SSHD technology into our product offerings we are able to address customer demand for greater speed, shorter boot up and response times, optimum storage capacity and better battery life, all at a lower price point, " said Jerry Gross, vice president, Lenovo global procurement.
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Despite future medical advances that promise to lengthen lifespans and improve quality of life for seniors, but at a price.
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