The company gave another man the promotion Bill expected. The boss just threw him a bone - sending him to head a branch office way out in Iowa.

公司把比尔所向往的升迁机会给了别人，随后给他施了点小恩赐——派他去领导一个远在爱荷华州的分部，但这并不是比尔所期望的。

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The reason we have a 1, 426-page bill rather than a strategic 250-page bill is that the executive branch has so far proposed no targeted low-carbon strategy.

我们之所以有一个1426页的法案，而不是一个250页的战略法案，就是因为行政部门至今没有提出旨在实现低碳的策略。

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As for industry, there was never much in the first place, "so there's just not much to lose," says Bill Watkins, an economist at the local branch of the University of California.

至于工业，这里本来就没有，“所以也没有什么可失去的”，加州大学当地分校的经济学家Bill Watkins如是说。

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To address those concerns, the bill gave executive branch employees a waiver from the requirement to disclose their stock or securities trades until September 30 to allow some additional time to determine the appropriate procedures for those officials.

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Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): It's what I was told in the ninth grade Congress would be like, where you had members of the Senate with the members of the executive branch, cabinet secretaries, literally writing a bill line by line.

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Nuclear power, over time, would lessen our dependence on both oil and coal, but so far the executive branch has also been slow in implementing incentives contained in the 2005 energy bill.

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