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After feeling a brief twang of personal satisfaction for taking money from the world champion when he lands in my territory, I end up owing him an extortionate amount of rent just a few throws later, forcing me to mortgage a few properties of my own.
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After many false starts and real tribulations, Adam Reith has nearly finished building a spaceship to take him home. He and his two trusted companions had been betrayed by Aila Woudiver, the underworld kingpin who had provided the necessary men and equipment in return for an extortionate amount of money. However, Reith was able to turn the tables and take Woudiver captive (as described in The Dirdir). Even as a prisoner though, Woudiver is a dangerous enemy.
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Peg O'Connor Fowl, often and quite rudely referred to as Pirate Peg, and by her great-grandson Myles Fowl as Peg the Information Corsair, was a Fowl who during a period in which the Fowl family in its entirety had been briefly outlawed by the governments of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, had paid the Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits an extortionate amount of gold to engineer a secret cabin in the rear car of the Orient Express that would be made available exclusively and in perpetuity to the Fowl family to allow them access to the entirety of Continental Europe.
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The Pastry War was a war fought between Mexico and France that ran from 1838 to 1839, over damages to French shops from the 1828 riot in the upscale Parián market in central Mexico City. The French government demanded an extortionate amount of 600,000 pesos. In early 1838 the French Minister launched an ultimatum to the Government of Mexico from Veracruz: Mexico pay the claims of French nationals or its ports would be blockaded by the French fleet. Diplomatic relations were broken off on April 16, 1838, and began a French blockade of Mexican ports of Veracruz and Tampico.
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