Innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress—higher growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for individuals.

从广义上来说，创新是所有经济发展的关键因素——它使得国家经济增长更快，公司产品更有竞争力，个人事业更光明顺遂。

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But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress—higher growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for individuals.

但是，广义上来说，创新是所有经济进步的关键因素——它使得国家经济增长更快，公司产品更有竞争力，个人事业更兴旺发达。

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Ultimately, all that the United States seeks is a level playing field for its companies, where the cost and quality of their products determines whether or not they win business.

说到底，美国寻求的只是为美国的公司找到一个公平竞争的场地，让其产品的成本与质量决定它们是否能赢得商机。

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Not all of those companies have created products for tablets, but Talbot expects they will.

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Third, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble where strange nonsense words became company names, there are all sorts of weird names popping up in education companies these days for products that are far less differentiated than their founders like to believe.

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So, with growing demand for gasoline and other refined-oil products driving the prices and profits for all refiners upward, and with companies like Valero reaping the rewards of a widening price gap between sour and sweet on the upstream side, sour refiners like Valero are going to continue their monster returns.

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