By the turn of the century, Pittsburgh had the highest death rate in the United States.

到了世纪交替时，匹兹堡的死亡率居全美之首。

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In conversations, interpersonal coordination is found when people adjust the duration of their utterances and their speech rate to one another so that they can enable turn-taking to occur.

在交谈中，人际间的协调性表现在其对说话时长和说话速度的调整上，这样做能够使对话进行下去。

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Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

人们首先想到的是某种全球统计数据，某种指标，它将对各国的经济和环境条件进行评级，并显示出两者之间的关系。

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For most of the past year, the European Central Bank (ECB) has made vast quantities of cash available to euro-zone banks at a fixed rate of 1%, which in turn has pushed down mortgage rates.

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The rate of distressed sales (of foreclosed properties or short-sales) is declining, which in turn means the number of cheaper homes being sold off, as a proportion of the total number of sales, is falling, giving a boost to average prices.

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To this end, Aerovironment is working on a system of miniature gyroscopes and air-flow detectors to measure Black Widow's speed and rate of turn.

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