This deterioration came from a poor starting-point, for Greece in particular.

竞争力的恶化源自起跑时候的劣势，对希腊来说尤是如此。

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The idea of starting her own business seemed impossible to Pilar Moya, a poor woman from Atahualpa, high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.

皮拉尔·莫亚是一位来自厄瓜多尔安第斯山脉高处的阿塔瓦尔帕的贫穷妇女，她似乎不可能产生创业的念头。

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But GE and TCS are doing something more exciting than fiddling with existing products: they are taking the needs of poor consumers as a starting point and working backwards.

但是GE和TCS并不是盲目研制这些令人激动地产品：他们从贫穷消费者出发并加以精炼。

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But the reality is that Washington was deficit spending, promising to pay for it later with implausible cuts in food stamps for the poor starting in 2014.

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But to establish the extent of the wrongdoing, and to bring those responsible to justice, would be a huge task for any country, let alone one that is poor and only starting to rebuild independent institutions.

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But GE and TCS are doing something more exciting than fiddling with existing products: they are taking the needs of poor consumers as a starting point and working backwards.

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