Most of it was in the West. Western workers were able to pay themselves above the global "market-clearing" price because they faced little, if any, competition from elsewhere.

西方世界仍攒聚着大部分资金，因此西方社会的工人能够拿到高于市场价的薪资，更因为他们面临的竞争几乎可以忽略不计。

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But mining accidents in China, Russia, West Virginia, New Zealand and Turkey each killed dozens of workers.

但在中国，俄罗斯，西弗吉尼亚州，新西兰，土耳其，矿难都会导致许多工人丧生。

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Its hard to see who would lose more if Mr. Sarkozy and Mrs. Merkel get their way-neither workers in the east nor taxpayers in the west would benefit from such a move.

如果萨科奇和默克尔一意孤行，很难预料在这一举措下，东欧的工人阶层还是西欧的纳税人会成为最后的输家。

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The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

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The Unification Ministry in Seoul says hundreds of South Korean managers and other workers from the South were allowed to enter the industrial complex in the west coast Kaesong border city,Wednesday.

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Like their counterparts in the West, many workers groan about having to plod on for longer.

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