首先，这个数字是根据增长数据计算出来的，而这些数据比议会无党派美国国会预算局和私营企业预测的数字都要高。

First, it is based on growth figures that are better than those projected by either the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office or private-sector forecasters.

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首先，它请了新的顾问和说客，要让国会信服对美国安全的担忧没有根据。

First, it has hired new advisers and lobbyists to convince Congress that worries about the security of U.S. technology are baseless.

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电视上首先就报道了帕潘德欧里放弃公投的想法，然后就是他冗长的放弃公投国会的辩证演讲。

Mr Papandreou was at first reported to have dropped the idea of the referendum, but then spent much of a rambling speech to parliament justifying it.

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