Some 43%, according to one poll, consider experience of running a business (ie, Ms Whitman) more useful for the governor's job, whereas 44% value experience of running government (Mr Brown).

根据一项调查显示，约43%的选民认为曾经有过企业经营经历的人(即Whitman女士)更能胜任州长的职位，而44%的人认为曾经有过州长经历的Brown先生更合适。

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When he was finance minister, Mr Brown liked to talk about prudence. But the dreadful state of public finances shows how poorly prepared Britain's government was for an economic rainy day.

布朗曾任财长时热衷说深谋远虑，但可怖财政形势表明英国哪里有未雨绸缪！

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It is the latest bad news for the Brown government that already has faced strong criticism here about the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

This government would rule all the slave territory that Brown and his men could capture.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

said Brown. "Men who take up guns against the government,"

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Some saw an attempt by Mr Balls to jockey for position in a post-Gordon Brown government.

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What they did not get, however, was much of an idea of what a Brown government may be like.

BBC: Analysis

Or Liam Byrne, who said last week that choice was a 'fetish' and that in a Brown government "there will be a little less said about choice in public services - instead there will be more emphasis on control".

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