Instead, politicians are trying to push every kid in America into the current exorbitantly expensive system.

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Meetings are exorbitantly expensive when you add up the number of highly paid people in the room at the same time.

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Consumers had been pressured into accepting exorbitantly expensive plans to protect their identity or cover bills in the event of disability or job loss.

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Though the iPod was derided by some as exorbitantly expensive at the time of its launch in 2001, it has amassed some two-thirds of the world market for hand-held music devices.

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Private child care is exorbitantly expensive.

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"Even if you did identify the 50 or 100 people who did year-2000 work, you need to devote a significant chunk of money until it becomes exorbitantly expensive, " says Jeanne Koch, a systems manager in the systems and engineering department at The Washington Post, in Washington.

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