Changes in farming methods have badly affected employment in the area.

耕作方法的改变严重影响了这个地区的就业。

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The scheme will also be encouraging sheep farmers to sign up to a set of principles - including ensuring their animals are born and bred within a specified area and reared using traditional methods.

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In six cases, it was possible to compare the effect of the new methods with a control area, where levels of disorder and police resources were similar.

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Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.

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