A more radical French suggestion to impose absolute caps on bonus amounts seems to be headed for the long grass.

法国则提出更为激进的建议：设置奖金的绝对上限，但这一提议似乎被搁置了。

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The current account deficits of Greece and Portugal exceed 10% of GDP, while the US deficit, despite being gigantic in absolute terms, amounts to "only" 5% of GDP.

希腊与葡萄牙经常账赤字超过了GDP的10%，尽管美国赤字在绝对项上数字庞大，但“仅”占GDP的5%。

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The current account deficits of Greece and Portugalexceed 10% of GDP, while the USdeficit, despite being gigantic in absolute terms, amounts to "only" 5% of GDP.

希腊和葡萄牙的经常性账户赤字超过了本国GDP的10%，此时美国的赤字，尽管它的绝对数目大的惊人，但它只占GDP的5%。

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The foretelling is absolute and amounts almost to an order.

ECONOMIST: Letters

According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).

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But while these are warning signs, it is not clear that the harm in absolute numbers will be great even if the worst should happen and significant amounts of radioactive waste are spewed into the air or the ground.

FORBES: Fear Of Japan's Radiation Is Overdone