Western consumers, facing higher taxes and lower benefits, will no longer have the freedom to spend; indeed, they will want to save more as they face long retirements.

在更高的税率和更低的收入面前，西方消费者再也不能自由自在的消费。实际上，为了漫长的退休生活，他们必须储蓄更多的钱。

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With organic agriculture, environmental costs tend to be lower and the benefits greater.

有机农业的环境成本往往更低，效益更大。

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The estimates about all the lives to be saved are just extrapolations based on the presumed benefits of lower blood pressure.

那些可以拯救数万生命的看法不过是些推测，其根据不过是低盐饮食理论上可以有降低血压的好处罢了。

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And many farmers growing GE crops have seen economic benefits like higher yields,lower costs, and more flexibility than their conventional-farming counterparts.

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The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

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The jobs that are coming back are typically lower pay, sometimes lower benefits, than the jobs that were lost.

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Somehow this funding issue must be solved either through higher taxes or lower benefits.

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But worse for Irish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese households is that they have already been hit by higher taxes and lower benefits.

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