"There is no question about that. But we need to understand much more about that.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Such states, of course, did not need a bureaucracy for there were no vast royal or state holdings that needed management and not much economic surplus to support a bureaucratic class.

国家无需官僚体制,因为没有庞大的皇室家族,和国家财富需要管理,也没多少经济盈余能够维持官僚阶级

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"In the Philippines and all over Asia, fertilizer has been overused and misused because no one explains to them how much they need or how to use it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28