Farmers can unknowingly spread the infection with their cutting tools.

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They've been cutting the spread between the discount rate and the Federal Funds Rate again it's an effort to stimulate the economy.

他们一直在缩减,贴现率与,联邦资金利率之间的宽度,同样它又是刺激经济的努力。

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With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.

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Perhaps they hoped the whole spread-cutting business would just go away.

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Many tributaries running through the forest had dried up due to wide-spread clear-cutting and they said fertilizers were polluting the water.

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