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pay a heavy price

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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it. Peter Drucker

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us. Irwin Redlener

We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty. James Nasmyth

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