Based on past experience, almost all will be extended after some debate about how or whether to pay for their budgetary cost.

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On this assumption, the net budgetary cost roughly balances the trade benefits.

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This bargain has been breaking down, not because of the heartlessness of civil servants but because of a clash between scientific advance and budgetary cost.

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