That figure would represent a “primary” balance (a balanced budget once interest payments are excluded), and would also arrest the rise in the debt as a share of GDP.

这个数字代表一个“基本”的平衡（利息支付被排除在外而取得的平衡预算），也可能会降低债务在GDP中所占的比例。

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“Reduction in the stringency of employment protection is needed and could be balanced by an increase in the extent of accrual-based severance payments,” it said.

该组织称：“有必要降低就业保护的严格程度，并且可以相应扩大递增型离职补偿金的范围。”

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That figure would represent a "primary" balance (a balanced budget once interest payments are excluded), and would also arrest the rise in the debt as a share of GDP.

这个数字代表一个“基本”的平衡（利息支付被排除在外而取得的平衡预算），也可能会降低债务在GDP中所占的比例。

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The auditors call for a more balanced distribution of farm aid, either by capping higher individual payments or by assessing the specific circumstances of the farms.

BBC: EU auditors deplore wasted farm aid in Eastern Europe

Given looming cuts in Medicare payments to providers, a little-noticed study of the impact of payment cuts in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is even more intriguing.

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