Its smaller companies will not be covered. The head of Middle East research at Swiss-based financial firm UBS, Saud Masud,says it is a step in the right direction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

He is also a PhD candidate in Economics at Yale and he's been doing research on financial markets in developing countries.

他正在耶鲁攻读经济学博士学位,他目前正在研究,发展中国家的金融市场

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But when you start doing scientific research or financial work, imprecision and rounding errors start to add up.

但如果你碰到涉及科学研究,或财政方面的项目时，不精确度,和错误就会累加。

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Analyst Kerry Brown, of the London-based research group Chatham House, compared Britain's deficit to that of Greece, where financial problems have led to massive cuts in spending and deep social unrest.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13