Consider that in 1990, roughly half the global population lived on less than $1 a day; by 2007, the proportion had shrunk to 28 percent -- and it will be lower still by the close of 2010.

看看1990年的时候，大约一半全球人口的日均生活费用少于1美元；而到2007年，该项比率已经缩减到28%——到2010年末它还会更低。

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Not surprisingly, they call for Fannie and Freddie to be dramatically shrunk when market conditions allow, and for their subsidies to be explicitly recognised on the federal books.

ECONOMIST: Why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to diet

This means the transistors - or tiny on-off switches that power its processors - can be shrunk in size.

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