Spain's destiny may lie beyond its control; this week it paid almost 7% in a ten-year bond auction, its highest since 1999.

西班牙的命运可能超出了自控范围；本周它在10年期国债拍卖中支付了近7%的金额，这是1999年以来最高的。

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Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words; Original edition (September 28, 1999)

出版者：门廊书店/经在不言中；原版（1999年9月28日）

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2002 saw a sharp increase in the number of NETEM test-takers which was far beyond half a million and was approximately twice as many as that in 1999.

2002年，考研的人数大幅度增加，远远超过了50万人，几乎是1999年的两倍。

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Mahathir, who has said he may stay on beyond 1999, demonstrated he remains a forceful leader who knows how to sway the party.

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If it is true, as the whispers in Ankara suggest, that a three-sided coalition led by Mr Ecevit might delay the election supposed to take place by April, and hang on to power beyond 1999, that concern may well deepen.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

Action 2000, a body set up by the government to co-ordinate its campaign to beat the bug, says that in the past year about 15% of the microchip-controlled production lines in factories have failed tests of whether they can cope with dates beyond 1999.

ECONOMIST: The bill for the millennium bug keeps going up