I started with Hoover 26 years ago in sales and rose up through the ranks.

我26年前加入胡佛公司作销售，而后一步步晋升。

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According to figures collected in 1977, the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977.

根据1977年收集的数据，与少数民族企业签订的合同总额从1972年的7700万美元上升到1977年的11亿美元。

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At 7 p.m. he was in the station looking for the girl with a red rose.

晚上7点，他在车站里寻找拿着红玫瑰的女孩。

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Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China,up.

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But many experts say Mr.Saakashvili's drop in popularity over the years indicates a strong disillusionment with the achievements of the Rose Revolution.

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This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

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However, Kent's loss was Middlesex's gain as the county with no previous aptitude for Twenty20 stunned the defending champions with a nerve-wracking last-ball victory at the Rose Bowl in July, with Henderson bowling the decisive last over as well as smashing 43 from 33 balls.

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The government said that all components rose in March while with the exception of alcohol and tobacco all prices rose faster than in February.

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Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.

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