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BECAUSE of the September 2001 attacks, the New York Police Department has become a sophisticated counter-terrorism agency. In the decade since then the NYPD has increased the number of detectives on a...

2001年的911恐怖袭击事件后，美国纽约警方由此变成了一个资深的反恐机构。在911事件发生的十年时间内，纽约警方已经和美国联邦调查局合作侦查的案件从17起突增到100起。纽约警察局雇佣了前任中情局的高级侦探来领导他们的情报部门。其探员遍布...

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It shows that Greece’s economic clock has been turned back furthest: it has been rewound by over 12 years. Elsewhere in the euro area, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain have lost seven years or more....

我们可以看到希腊的经济退步最多：倒退了12年。欧洲的其他国家，爱尔兰、意大利、比利时和西班牙倒退了至少7年。英国，这第一个被迫向丧失偿还贷款信誉的银行伸援手的国家，经济也倒退了8年。美国，这一危机的始作俑者，倒退了10年。 我们的这个...

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THE reanimation of America’s housing market has been a long time coming. Residential building last contributed positively to growth in 2005. Housing-construction employment has dropped 43% since then....

美国翘首以盼房屋市场复苏等得脖子都长了。房屋市场把最后的一点力量贡献给了2005年的经济增长，随后，房屋建造业的就业率就下降了43%。政府在拯救房屋市场的努力也懈怠了，好在耐用品市场最终显示出好转迹象。2月份房屋建造业协会的建设者信心指数迎...

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A MAN walks into a conference room at the W hotel in downtown Austin. The setting, sleek and hushed, says business. The trainers—red, puffy, and paired with a sports coat—add a wink: new business. ...

一名男士步入了奥斯汀市中心W酒店的会议室。那里的环境井然有序且安静，一派职场气象。但是男士脚穿的红色蓬松运动鞋和身上的运动外套却在这派气象上加上了一种特殊意味：新型商务。 “在这个国度的每个角落里，每个缝隙间，都蕴藏着疯狂惊人的新建公...

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CHEERS greeted Barack Obama’s hiring of Cass Sunstein away from the University of Chicago. Mr Sunstein, a lawyer, now head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is in charge of lifting ...

奥巴马从芝加哥大学挖来了凯斯·桑斯坦，此举让人欢欣鼓舞。桑斯坦律师现在是白宫信息和监管事务办公室主任，负责降低监管对美国经济的干预力度。桑斯坦因其睿智的经济学思想而名满天下，并且信奉对经济应持“家长式的自由管理”态度；他认为政策应该引导，而...

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"ALL-WHITE neighbourhoods are effectively extinct," according to "The End of the Segregated Century", a recent report by the Manhattan Institute, a New York think-tank. Only 0.5% of America’s 70,000 n...

纽约智库曼哈顿研究所在其名为《隔离世纪的终结》的近期报告中写道：“美国几乎已经没有‘纯’白人社区了。”现在，美国70000个社区中，只有0.5%的社区仅有白人居民。与1910年相比，现在的美国城市要更加融合。自1960年至今，美国居住在“黑...

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AFTER three years of stagnant loan growth, The Peoples Bank in Coldwater, Ohio, has noticed a change. Clients who two years ago would not have qualified for a loan now find that they can. One customer...

借债增长停滞三年以后，在俄亥俄州的冷水的人民银行已经公告了一个变化。两年前没有贷款资格的顾客现在获得了贷款资格。两年前每周只需工作35小时的顾客现在每周可以工作45-50小时。“这就是顾客来到银行的原因：他们拥有了更稳定的收入”第七分支银行...

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EVEN people who don’t normally care much for football tune in to the Super Bowl to watch the best commercials Madison Avenue can dream up. The most talked about this year was Chrysler’s gritty tribute...

超级碗开始时，就连平时不关注橄榄球的人们也纷纷转台，观看比赛间隙美国广告界独运匠心的作品。今年，克莱斯勒汽车公司的广告让观众津津乐道，特别是广告中向美国及汽车之城底特律的经济复苏致以的崇高敬意。与其称之为广告，倒不如将它归为一部微电影。最后...