We made a big bet against Internet stocks in 1999 and 2000 that was very profitable for the University.

999年和2000年我们大幅做空互联网股票,为学校赚得了很多利润

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So clearly, that's not, thank you, that's not a profitable deviation and it's also not a profitable deviation for people on the left.

所以很明显,那不是,谢谢,那不是个有利的偏离并且,对左边的人来说也不是个有利的偏离

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I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

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Britain anyway started producing oil in the North Sea; lots of countries in Latin America started looking and finding oil, and of course, russian oil started being very, very profitable.

英国首先在北海开采石油,后来很多拉美国家也开始开采石油了,当然俄罗斯采油收入也是颇丰的

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