If it all happened at once, come January next year, it's estimated it could take a toll of 4% of U.S. GDP.
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While dating can be expensive, there is evidence that remaining single can take a different kind of toll.
In homes and care facilities across our country, Alzheimer's disease continues to take a heartbreaking toll on millions of lives.
But that forecast looks rather sanguine and some economists fear the tightening may take more of a toll on a still-delicate economy.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez appeared before cameras on Monday sporting a shaved head, as the effects of chemotherapy begin to take a toll on his body.
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But depreciation can take a nasty toll on the value of your car, especially in the first couple of years.
Murray's retrieving skills began to take their toll and prompted a run of desperately inconsistent play from Baghdatis, allowing the Scot to wrap up the first set in spectacular style with a sliding volley and two rasping forehands.
It is too early to tell if this is simply a brief pause or if profit taking activities will start to take a toll on the recent rise of the pound as investors and traders still remain skittish and prefer to lock in profits when they are available.
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"The atmosphere, the occasion, the importance of the match, a lot of factors take their toll when making decisions, " midfielder Jenas added.
He says "daylighting" can fill aspirations with the cooperation of a boss, but warns of the toll it could take.
But there's no question those kinds of jobs take a big toll on ones personal life.
Severe weather also continues to take its toll in the Alps , where a number of skiers have been killed in avalanches since the weekend.
Spending years developing one of the most expensive and ambitious games of all time has to take a toll on you.
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Indeed, months of crying and sleeplessness can take a huge toll on the family, whether it's due to reflux or colic or another cause.
While the strike at Cerro Verde has not had affected production as seriously as Grasberg, Freeport is working with a skeleton crew of workers which could eventually take its toll on production.
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They'll carry memories of violence and displacement that could take a heavy toll on their psychological health.
Short of proving your innocence, the controversy will take a toll, guilty or not.
But with almost all of Iraq's major cities under coalition control, it would take a major twist in the coalition's fortunes to match the toll of Desert Storm.
Yet the economic woes of the East Asian economies are still likely to take a heavy toll in South Asia.
He says the greatest potential cost is the toll Proposition 8 could take on California's reputation as a haven for workers of all stripes.
"This isolation, alongside the pressures, fears and anxieties of supporting an ill or disabled loved one, can take a serious toll on carers' mental health, " she said.
And I'm glad I caught you at the beginning of the conference, before Bourbon Street has a chance to take a toll on you. (Laughter.) All right.
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Health problems hit in 1997 when Parfitt's old lifestyle of drink and drugs began to take its toll and he underwent a quadruple heart bypass after doctors warned he could die at any time.
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That's especially true in hockey, where the combination of speed, power, hard ice and even harder pucks can take a toll on even the best players, who usually avoid fights at all costs.
Small-sized airlines are dropping out of the skies as record oil prices take their toll, giving British Airways a choice opportunity to boost its own tiny transatlantic venture.
The figure represented an increase of 1.1 % from the previous quarter as a painful recession continues to take a toll on the debt-stricken nation.
Dr. Dirceu Alves, of Abramet, a Brazilian association of doctors that specializes in treating traffic accident victims, said poorly built cars take an unnecessary toll.
In mid-July, Raymond James analyst Buck Horne told Forbes it would be prudent for investors to take some profits in the best-performing names in the space, but also said Toll is part of a basket of higher-end builders that are better positioned to withstand any hiccups in the housing recovery.
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Hoover imagines a toll-taking scenario where you can get rid of clunky FastPass-style devices and instead simply take pictures of cars as they whiz by key checkpoints without even requiring the vehicles to slow down.
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