This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.

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Representative DON SHERWOOD (Republican, Pennsylvania): I made a mistake that nearly cost me the love of my wife, Carol, and our daughters.

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The same holds true for the cost of starting a business you love, versus one that you hate.

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The Philippines dropped all charges against Onel de Guzman , a 24-year-old computer school dropout suspected of releasing the "I Love You" virus that cost billions of dollars worth of damage when it deleted hard drives around the world in May.

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That may secure the needed investment, but it would mark the end of Britain's love affair with liberalised energy markets and would make the cost of clean energy uncomfortably explicit.

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Diesel advocates love to push the cost-of-ownership pencil, but I'm here to tell you, in the case of the Cayenne Diesel, the economics are horrible and unsubtle.

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Nevertheless, Wally Neil's father Dan, a motoring writer for the Wall Street Journal, is convinced that "American youth have fallen out of love with automobiles" because of the rising cost of motoring and the fact that they are "living their lives online".

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My second language is Welsh, but much as I would love to translate Argleton, the Welsh language market is fairly small and the cost of a Welsh editor would be more than I would be likely to make from sales.

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They would love to control the actions of the rest of us vis a vis our health, and use cost as a barometer.

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