Since much of any tax cut will be saved, the stimulus effect of tax cuts is almost always less than the effect of direct spending.

由于每次少收的税很多都被存起来了，减税的刺激效果几乎总是不如直接支出的效果。

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Airlines are driving more business to their websites in an effort to cut costs, and consumers are looking for lower prices by booking direct on the Internet.

航空公司正将更多业务集中在网站中，竭力降低成本，而消费者也通过直接在线预订希望享受更低价格。

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Swedish health officials tried and failed to cut queues by increasing direct funding for hospitals and even issued an edict requiring hospitals to cut queues for elective operations to three months.

瑞典健康部门的官员尝试通过增加对于医院的直接资助，甚至发布法令要求医院将选择性手术的等待队伍缩短到三个月，但是都失败了。

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Very few human spinal cord injuries occur as a result of a direct cut through spinal tissue (as was the injury model in the Courtine study).

BBC: 'Hope' for the paralysed?

The United States cut off direct, nonhumanitarian aid to Gaza but more than doubled humanitarian aid it funnels through non-governmental groups and the United Nations.

CNN: Bush blames Hamas for Gaza conflict

The new law doesn't (as Reformamt had hoped it would) waive penalties or interest for these losers or even direct the IRS to cut them any special break.

FORBES: Poof! A Tax Credit