Meanwhile, Fitch, a credit-rating agency, said that Britain risked losing its AAA grade in 2010 unless measures were taken to cut spending and raise revenue. See article.

与此同时，信贷评级机构Fitch称除非采取减少支出提高收入的政策，否则英国将于2010年面临失去它AAA等级的危险。

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The law was introduced after a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school, along with a knife to cut it.

该法规在一个三年级女生被开除后一年得以实施。 这个女孩的外婆送了个生日蛋糕到学校，同时还有一把刀用来切蛋糕。

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The Christina school district attracted similar controversy in 2007 when it expelled a seventh-grade girl who had used a utility knife to cut Windows out of a paper house for a class project.

2007年，克里斯汀娜学区同样惹来了争议。他们开除了一个7年级女生，该女生为完成课堂作业，用一把多用刀给一座纸房子开窗户。

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Increasingly, they are flexible in nature, allowing enrolled participants the ability to hold onto that big career while building the credentials now required to cut the grade in top management.

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All countries that have defaulted since the mid-1970s had their grade cut to junk by ratings agencies at least a year beforehand.

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Then to cut costs, they have to use cheaper grade components, like they do in the desktop and laptop market with cheaper grade this and that to cut costs and the MTBF is such that they are throw away products that people will be unhappy with.

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