And one it expert admits, "Trillions of dollars that companies have invested into information technology have gone to waste."

一个IT专家承认说，“公司为信息技术投入的数以万计的美元都化作了泡影。”

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Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in Bing, its search engine.

微软已经在它的搜索引擎Bing中投入了几十亿美元。

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The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

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So, in addition to losing $9.9 billion, there were capital gains' distributions of $3.3 billion dollars representing about 24% of the money that was invested.

所以,除了损失的99亿美元以外,基金中的另外33亿美元还是有收益的,占投资金额的24%

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The company is mostly owned by the United States government which has invested billions of dollars.

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The percentage of portfolio dollars invested in stocks has risen for three consecutive months.

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We are now seeing millions of dollars invested each year in developing, deploying, and staffing these solutions.

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Why delay near-term capital consumption if dollars invested and saved will, if lucky, come back reduced in value?

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