Yet traditional measures of manufacturing productivity have shown significant increases despite the under measurement of quality, whereas service productivity has continued to stagnate.

然而，传统的制造业生产率衡量指标显示，尽管质量衡量不足，但生产率显著提高，而服务业生产率则继续停滞不前。

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We also still see, despite increases in women's participation in the labor force, that there are still really high wage gaps in the labor force.

我们依然看到，虽然妇女的劳动参与率提高了，但劳动力之间的工资差距确实仍然很大。

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Several factors help explain the reluctance of Banks to lend, despite general improvement in financial conditions and increases in bank stock prices and earnings.

有几个因素有助于解释尽管财政状况、银行股票价格和收入都有普遍改善，银行为什么还不愿意贷款。

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Despite the cuts, President Obama's proposed budget increases NASA's funding by $6 billion over the next five years.

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Despite the increases, arrests of illegal border crossers remain at the lowest point since 1971.

NPR: Arrests Along US Borders Up In Last Year

Despite the increases, prices nationwide are still about 30 percent below the peak they reached at the height of the housing bubble in the summer of 2006.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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