Now banks are forcing their counterparties to pay a much higher price to roll the paper over, and it is not clear how quickly central-bank injections of liquidity will ease the squeeze.
Several stars named in the report could pay the price in Cooperstown, in much the same way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year, merely on suspicion of steroid use.
But neither company has much to gain if they pay the hefty price tag.
Risk has a price, and you should never pay too much for it.
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The biggest problem, from an economic perspective, is that despite all these ills attacking the labor force, government stats show the average worker is twice as productive today as he or she was 40 years ago, thanks to technology, meaning that an occasionally distracted employee is a small price for a business to pay for so much more output.
For now, dragging much of the cabinet to Beijing seems a small price to pay for diffusing protectionist pressure at home.
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Similarly, when less risk and uncertainty is perceived, price-earnings ratios rise and investors are willing to pay a much larger amount for a given level of earnings.
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Investors type in what they want to buy or sell, and how much more than the prevailing market price they would be willing to pay or receive for various-sized parcels of shares.
Mr Ospel put too much faith in them and in his ambition, and he had to pay the price.
Those customers received it after much of its value had been wiped out, but were still required to pay the IPO price.
The consignment price, while much less, is often more than I could bring myself to pay for a new garment in a department store.
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Until teens work out the fact that they will eventually pay a steep price for their incompetence and naivety, the problem will persist, no matter how much is spent.
That price then determines, and puts a ceiling on, how much they can afford to pay for acquiring and maintaining the trucks in their fleets.
Proton had half of the fast-growing Malaysian market, thanks both to import tariffs (as high as 350% for a Mercedes) that made the Proton cars by far the cheapest in their class, and loans so generous that a buyer could pay as little as 10% of the price of the car up front and the rest over as much as ten years.
"It should be remembered that the price a vehicle is advertised for sale as is not the same price that someone might pay - second-hand car dealers may overstate the price in a newspaper or trade magazine, but accept much less when negotiating, " the spokesman added.
E-mail and instant messaging are not universally bad, he says, but if we rely on them too much and don't take the time to interact with people on a personal level, we will pay the price.
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