When companies make a gratis offer, what they're really doing is muddying the cost-benefit equation and making it more difficult for their prospects to make a clear value determination.

当公司发送免费品，他们真正的用意却只在搅浑成本-收益对等关系，让人更难人确认其价值。

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Supporters of each candidate have a valid argument to make, but shouldn't they have the benefit of being able to consider postseason performance in making their determination?

每位候选人的支持者们为了各自的偶像相互之间争论不休，既然这样他们为什么不将季后赛各人的表现考虑在内呢？

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But over the years, the rules governing benefit determination have become so convoluted and indecipherable that even the people working at the local Social Security offices routinely get things wrong.

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To verify accuracy of eligibility determination and benefit allocation level.

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In the millennium round, poor countries could benefit from America's determination to prise open Europe's cosseted farm sector.

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