Whatever area of life, whether it's financial, dietary, work or any other, if you make the decision in advance, you're likely to cut down on detrimental outcomes.

无论是在生活的哪个方面，不管是财务、饮食、工作或其它方面，如果你提前做决定，可能会减少有害的结果。

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In our case, executives don't guess what people want and make it in advance to see if it will sell, based on the previous year's demand.

对我们来说，管理人员不需要根据以往年度的需求来猜想人们想要什么，不需要先做出来再看产品是否卖得出。

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Indeed, persistent problems in immigration policy consume valuable resources needed to advance other security objectives and make it harder to focus on the most dangerous threats facing our country.

事实上，移民政策上存在的老问题耗费了了本应该用于其他安全目的的宝贵资源，同时也使得我们很难集中精力应对最大的威胁。

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Like the federal entitlement programs, these expenses are basically on autopilot and generally depend on decisions you make in advance (more on that later).

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As a plaintiff in the lawsuit to stop Comptroller Combs from making illegal payment, we were pleased she chose not to make the first advance payment thereby tapping the brakes on the incentive until the race was over and attendance and economic benefit were more certain.

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Atalla is indeed a father of information security technology, and he says he is working on a new advance that will make all computers much more secure than any of us think we can expect.

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