Global expansion through acquisition is usually expensive, and expansion through internal growth is time-consuming and sometimes impossible in markets that are not actively growing.

通过收购实现全球扩张通常代价高昂，而通过内部增长实现扩张则非常耗时；在那些没有积极增长的市场上，实现扩张有时甚至是不可能的。

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This is done for efficiency, so that this time-consuming operation is not performed on the server every time a message needs to be processed.

这样做是为了提高效率，以便每次有消息需要处理的时候，不会在服务器上执行这种耗时的操作。

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This is not ideal, and somewhat time consuming, but here are the steps.

这不是理想的，并且稍微有些费时，而此处是这些步骤。

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It is not time consuming to have GTC limit orders to buy on weakness or to sell on strength each member of your portfolio.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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