Some early ideas for funding care - including mandatory levies on workers, retired folk or dead people's estates-proved controversial.

一些早期的想法，包括强制征收工人、退休人员或死人不动产税建立保障基金等都引起了争议。

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In the U.S. 11% turnover is considered too costly because of the expense of recruiting and training; 9% is just right for getting new ideas into an organization and getting rid of dead wood.

在美国，员工流动率超过11%就认为代价很大了，因为需要为员工招聘和培训付出很多；9%对一个组织来说是刚好的，既可以有新鲜血液注入，又可以淘汰一批人。

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The negotiation seemed to be at a dead end, with the U.S. negotiators out of ideas for pushing through a deal.

谈判好像陷入了僵局，美方谈判者对于如何推进交易进行已经束手无措。

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Buchholz remarked in his 2007 book New Ideas from Dead CEOs.

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By 1968 Malthus and his wrong ideas had been dead long enough to make a comeback.

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Conversations are a prototypical way of triggering the crossfire of ideas, but an exchange will not bear fruit if people fear that their ideas will be declared dead on arrival, swept aside as wild, or denounced as dumb.

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