There was also a drop in the number of people on long-term unemployment assistance.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Dilution occurs--the term specifically refers to changes in a number of shares that affect, adversely, existing shareholders.

摊薄特指的是,股票数量受到影响,不利于已持股的股东

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Today the term "political science" stands for one among a number of different disciplines that we call collectively the social sciences.

今日，政治科学“一词“,意指独立的学科,是我们集中称之为,社会科学的多种学科之一。

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"I am particularly concerned by the long duration of unemployment faced by a great number of workers, and the disruptive impact that this long-term unemployment has had, and will have on these workers and their families.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

And then the repulsive term, some positive coefficient r and r to a very high number.

然后排斥力，一些正系数,以及具有很大数值的。

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