In this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house.

在这个消费主义的时代，大多数买家并没有把大学视为一种投资，而是把它视作一种消费品——就像汽车、衣服或房子一样。

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For those who introduce projects for developing agriculture products, the reward is 1% of the actual investment of facilities, house for running, building.

引进农业开发类项目的，按实际到位基础设施及经营性房屋、建筑物投资额的1%奖励。

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These house some of the big investment banks, usually foreign-owned, which trade shares, bonds, currencies and derivatives on a scale that would have made an old-school City gent choke on his lunch.

这些建筑中有些是大的投行，通常是外资所有，他们交易股票、债券、货币和金融衍生物，而规模之大，能让一个传统都市绅士被他的午餐噎住。

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taking the latest projections into account. Last week,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there can be no wavering on investment in and reform of health care and education.

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They might put only 10% down on a house, so you buy a house for $300,000 and you put $30,000 down; that's an investment of $30,000 but it's highly risky because you are very leveraged when you only put 10% down.

他们也许只付了总房价的10%,若你买了30万的房子,但只交了3万,这是一笔3万元投资,但却是高风险的,只支付10%时,你的杠杆率就很高了

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Now, Weyland is not the type of person you would find at a Wall Street investment house.

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Just about every investment house on Wall Street dealt with him, and those that didn't mostly wanted to.

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According to the Reuters numbers, the average U.S. investment house dropped from having 64.9% of their assets in stocks to 63.3%.

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