They also want guarantees of job protection, after severalrounds of job cuts over the past five years reduced the number ofnewsroom employees by about 25 percent, to 270.

他们也希望得到工作的保证。 在过去5年中，在历经了数轮裁员之后，新闻演播室里面的雇员数量减少了25%，现在只有270人。

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For example, a person might want to buy a packet of cigarettes for twenty-five cents. If there is a sales tax of eight percent is that state, when the cost of the cigarettes is twenty-seven cents.

例如，某人想买25美分一包的纸烟，如果该州的销售税征收率是物价的百分之八，那么这包纸烟的实价就是27美分，这个数字里面就包括了销售税。

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And if I want to make a measurement to two percent accuracy I have to know this timing to about one-tenth of a millisecond because one-tenth of a millisecond 2% is about two percent of five.

如果我在测量的时候,需要把精度控制在2%以内,则计时的精度,就得大约1/10毫秒,因为1/10毫秒正好是,5的。

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But, if you want to be the best in your circle of friends or in the top five percent in the U.S. population at golf, swimming, Spanish, Japanese, whatever it might be, I firmly believe that you can accomplish that in most cases six months or less.

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