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Cue the moral crisis for the naive protagonist who realizes almost too late that the reward isn’t worth the hefty price.

California grads who moved to New York for college were drawn to smaller, competitive private liberal arts colleges, usually with heftier tuitions than California’s public universities.

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Most FedEx services will be available, too, with the exception of FedEx Freight, a service tailored to items that are too hefty for standard parcel services.

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Cat Whitehouse, co-chief executive of the disability charity Transport for All, says the removal of the scheme's tax breaks will "leave our community facing hefty charges that will lock us out of society".

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But those losses have slowed since April and the Kremlin has managed to bolster the army's ranks by offering recruits hefty paychecks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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