With escalating costs, declining availability, and mixed quality outcomes, employers have been hurt by the absence of sound national policy.

逐步升高的成本，下降的有效实用性，和混杂的质量，雇主们因为缺乏健全的医疗政策而受损害。

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Maybe the declining popularity of reading is the fault of the increasing availability of computer games.

也许我们可以把孩子们越来越不喜欢读书的这种现状归咎于层出不穷的电脑游戏。

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Add to that the declining availability of funding for new weapons as Washington heads into a prolonged season of budget cutting, and the Ground Combat Vehicle looks doomed before it even gets going.

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Moreover, providing liquidity to financial institutions does not address directly instability or declining credit availability in critical nonbank markets, such as the commercial paper market or the market for asset-backed securities, both of which normally play major roles in the extension of credit in the United States.

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Humdrum crimes are declining almost everywhere, thanks to better street policing and the ready availability of legitimate ways of earning money.

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