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The carrier also continues to maintain that it is "confident" that the growth trend would continue and passenger Numbers will remain strong, as competitors continue to reduce capacity.

该航空公司同时也表示了其有“信心”保持持续的增长趋势和强劲的旅客量增长，而与此同时竞争对手在削减运力。

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Such an acquisition would enable Nomura to bring staff Numbers more quickly into line with competitors, improving its chances of winning mandates.

类似的并购会使野村证券更快地将员工人数提高到与竞争者相当的水平，提高赢得业务的可能性。

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We currently estimate the user decline to slow down in the coming years, but if Perfect World continues to cede ground to its competitors, the actual user numbers could fall much below our estimate, and this could mean a significant downside to our price estimate for Perfect World.

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These include the transaction costs inherent in a trading strategy (even if the cost of a trade has dropped dramatically in the past 10 years) and limited or no access to the vast computing power that competitors will be using to crunch the numbers.

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In the past four years demand for 212 numbers has more than tripled thanks to second lines, modems, faxes and the emergence of about 30 small competitors which, says Nynex, buy telephone numbers in blocks of 10, 000.

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