I first took a course in development economics in 1973, a year of economic turmoil with the Arab oil embargo and shortly after the downfall of the Bretton Woods exchange rate system.

我第一次学习发展经济学课程是在1973年，那一年由于阿拉伯国家的石油禁运导致经济动荡，而且布雷顿森林体系刚刚崩溃不久。

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After the wrenching economic crisis of the past year, people crave stability and predictability-in short, normalcy.

在经历了去年痛苦的经济危机后，人们渴望稳定和可预测性——简而言之，就是常态。

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In terms of economic impact they are the world's third largest cultural events, after the FIFA world Cup and the Olympics.

从经济影响的角度来看，这是世界上继世界杯足球赛和奥林匹克运动会之后第三大文化活动。

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But its fortunes declined in the last decade, because of the fall in business after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, a surge in fuel prices, and the worldwide economic slowdown.

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What is interesting is that after the fall of the Soviet Union and the halt in their economic support, Cuba's economy (according to a February 23, 2008 report in the Economist) shrank by 35 percent.

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In early October the Treasury released a pre-election economic and fiscal update indicating that after 14 years in surplus the budget balance was set to slip into deficit.

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Compared to the estate tax provisions in current law, and after all economic adjustments, repeal of the estate tax would increase GDP by about 2.25 percent, private sector output and labor income (hours worked times hourly wage) by about 2.34 percent, and capital stock by 6.1 percent.

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