In March Mr. Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.

3月时萨利纳斯先生关闭了该市的炼油厂，损失了5亿美元和5000个工作岗位。

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Try cutting down the cost first.

开始先尝试削减成本。

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The US has better growth prospects than most European nations and has the "exorbitant privilege" of issuing debt in the world's reserve currency, which keeps the cost down.

美国比大多数欧洲国家有更好的增长前景，而且美国还有将债务转移到国际储备货币上的“过分的特权”，这将使成本降低。

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By comparison, in dealing with the vast realms of low-content data, just about the only way to cost-effectively refine down to the good stuff will be through high-powered data compression.

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When teacher unions have power, education budgets go up but cost-effectiveness goes down.

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And a lot of mortgage brokers are presenting to them different, like Mr. Weller said, exotic ways to bring that cost down - reverse amortization loans, interest-only loans, teaser loans.

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