Sony Corp, maker of the PlayStation 3 game console, recently reported a better-than-expected 3.8% increase in revenue for its fiscal first quarter.

而游戏机PlayStation 3的制造商索尼公司(Sony Corp .)最近公布的第一财季收入增幅也好于预期，达3.8%。

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An interesting dinner-party game is to ponder what will be left to sell next time there is fiscal crunch.

我们仍然玩味当下次经济危机出现时，我们还有什么可以拿出来变卖的。

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Even after the embarrassing playout of the Obama-invented Great Sequester Game, after the fiasco of the president's Fiscal Cliff Game, conventional wisdom among Democrats holds that disunited Republicans will be routed in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving an open field for the president's agenda in the final two years of his term.

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The European debt crisis looms as a subplot to the game, and although soccer has no direct effect on European fiscal policy, the game serves as an outlet for the tension between the Greeks and the Germans.

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It should be a sobering lesson for self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives who talk a big game about cutting spending but then hesitate when it comes to the money we spend on war.

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