It is true that when there are start-up costs, such as credit checks, involved in serving a new customer, the costs exceed those of serving a repeat customer.

的确，当服务新客户需要启动成本时，比如信用检查，其成本要高于服务老客户的成本。

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XP allowed us to ensure that the complete team was involved from the start, including building our working environment and delivering initial requirements.

XP允许我们确保从开始就包含整个团队，包括建立我们的工作环境和提供初始需求。

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Anxiety may increase greenhouse gas "output" by the programmers involved, especially if they start hyperventilating.

焦虑可能会增加牵涉的程序员的温室气体“输出”，特别是当他们开始喘息时。

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There are really two purposes in us doing this: one was so you can get a fix on your own eating, and second you can see the challenges that are involved in assessing what people eat when you start doing studies linking diet to health.

这么做实际上有两个目的,一是你可以调整你自己的饮食,二是当你开始研究,饮食与健康的关系时,你会发现,在对人们吃什么进行评估时存在很多困难

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Unite's Eric Holmes said the island's Chief Minister needs to get involved and start negotiating.

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But, along with social concern and good sense, modern drug policy has from the start involved fear and unreason, often directed against foreigners or outsiders.

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Guthrie was also involved at the start of the second half with a low drive that was just off target with Middlesbrough keeper Ross Turnbull scrambling desperately to his right.

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