All this cost money -- and the town didn't want to cough it up.

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This is true of the flu, hepatitis and AIDS. With the avian flu, we've modeled the virus on supercomputers, and we think we understand why it binds deep in the lungs--it's not communicable--you don't cough it up.

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If MeerKAT succeeds, it might help persuade sceptical governments to cough up for the SKA. It will also enhance South Africa's chances of hosting this much larger project.

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But the William Blair study concludes that even if it has to cough up more tax, Amazon will still be able to offer prices that are lower than many rivals'.

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It now wants to force firms to cough up the files.

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The defense department is supposed to cough up half of those cuts, even though it represents only a fifth of federal spending.

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Switching to an investor-pays system might seem the obvious solution, but it is not clear that enough investors would cough up to make the business viable.

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It took Craig McCaw about 72 hours to cough up his shares to Sprint so that they could immediately resume more than 50% ownership after this Softbank Sprint deal was announced.

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Much of this comes from distressed sellers, dumping their stakes cheaply to avoid having to meet their obligation to cough up more money when private-equity funds demand it.

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The answer is it leaves the Americans, British and others trying to force the Europeans to cough up what G20 sherpas call "deliverables" on the future of the eurozone, before the rest of the world agrees to increase the firepower of the IMF.

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