Established businesses try to maintain privileged positions—at the expense of consumers.

那些资格较老的商家试图以消费者为代价保住自己的优势地位。

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They are the opportunistic arguments of a few who want to keep their privileged status at the expense of workers and taxpayers.

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Even as media outlets are nickel-and-diming staff and paring expenses to the bone, WikiLeaks has saddled a privileged few newspapers with the enormous expense of reviewing hundreds of thousands of classified documents from U.S. embassies.

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