For years that has been a job for the Group of 8: Britain,Canada,France,Germany, Italy,Japan,Russia and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

We've known each other for 8 years.

我们认识8年了。

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Moreover, it's had a 17.8% average return for the last ten years, which is number one among university endowments.

甚至,过去十年中,耶鲁基金的年均收益率高达17.8%,依然高居全美高校榜首

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Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

.. The equity premium is the-- 2.8% this short-term 2.8% is the riskless return, historically, for a period of almost 200 years.

股权溢价就是-,这个短期无风险投资收益率是，是根据近200年的数据得出的。

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The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

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