In its push for economic growth it has ignored projects that would improve living standards.

在努力追求经济增长的同时却忽视了改善生活水平的项目。

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The push for reform started in 1989.

推行改革的努力始于1989年。

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They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.

它们挂在枝头（由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名），需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。

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She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

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In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

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Secretary Clinton said the United States and South Africa will work more closely to push for reforms in Zimbabwe.

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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) minutes released this morning revealed again that outgoing BoE Governor Sir Mervyn King and two other officials were defeated in their push for more stimulus for the second month in a row (6-3).

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The first is in the push for increased use of nuclear power in preference to other fuels, especially oil, which is volatile in price and entails many political ramifications.

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That led to a position as federal prosecutor in Fairbanks, then a job for the Interior Department in the Eisenhower administration, where he was involved in the push for Alaska's statehood.

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