国会预算办公室估计奥巴马的一些社会政策将会比白宫所宣称的更加耗费，并使得经济增长进一步的缓慢。

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that some of Mr Obama's social policies will be more expensive than the White House claims, and that the economy will grow more slowly.

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在企业忙于应付残酷的经济萧条时，他们会以深谋远虑的眼光看待一切耗费在从支持慈善活动到使他们所排放的二氧化碳中性化的活动中的资源。

As firms grapple with a brutal economic downturn, they are taking a long, hard look at the resources they devote to everything from supporting charities to making their activities carbon-neutral.

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越来越多的证据表明，不论是对单个的国家还是将全世界看做一个整体，全球性流感疫情无疑将耗费巨大经济代价，从而使这个问题变得更加棘手。

This question is made more pointed by the mounting evidence that pandemics can exact a large economic toll on both individual countries and the world as a whole (see article).

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