At first glance, it looks as though Europe's largest economy has lost out in its core sector.

乍看之下，这个欧洲最大的经济体似乎已经在核心产业部门败下阵来。

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For example, your business sector may be "Telecommunications and it" while your core competencies may be satellite connectivity, or computer hardware, etc.

例如，您所在的商业行业可能是“通信与信息技术”，您企业的核心竞争力可能是卫星连接或电脑硬件，等等。

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The virtual organisation is able to leverage this core into almost any industrial sector.

虚拟组织对任何其它工业领域的核心（竞争力）都能起到杠杆作用。

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Core private-sector machine orders - seen as a key indicator of corporate investment - were down by 4% from 2006.

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Even before tackling this core problem, the citizen sector is growing jobs at two and a half to three times the rate of the rest of the economy in advanced countries.

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He said that free current accounts provided a barrier to entry into the UK retail banking sector because this core product "is usually given away for free", prompting banks to try to make profits by pushing other products.

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