With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to expand its desktop hold on the productivity market into one that spans the PC, Web, and phone.

微软下一个版本的Office软件将从桌面办公软件市场扩展到个人电脑、网络和手机。

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The construction scale continues to expand, production fast growth, labor productivity distinct enhancement.

施工规模继续扩大，生产快速增长、劳动生产率明显提高。

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The country's powerful trade unions are fighting wage cuts, so firms are trying to boost productivity or expand production abroad.

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Also making the case was Drew Greenblatt, the widely quoted president and owner of Marlin Steel, a Baltimore manufacturer of steel products that has managed to expand and add jobs by deploying robots and other machines to increase worker productivity.

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If a company can expand its output to meet the market demands simply by internal efficiency improvements (which is what productivity means to some extent), why should they go out and hire more labor?

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