Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.

在当前对联邦赤字的担忧中，“伸手摘星”的尝试似乎是一种可有可无的奢侈——似乎只要一年省下千分之一的预算就能解决我们的问题。

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While knowledge of CSS is more dispensable to SVG comprehension than is XML, the former plays a significant role in most practical SVG applications.

尽管CSS知识相对于xml来说，对于理解SVG更加无足轻重，但是前者在大多数实际s VG应用程序中扮演了重要角色。

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For all people, I'm just a dispensable role.

对于所有人来说，我只是一个可有可无的角色。

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In other words, with respect to these funds, American Beacon is merely a middleman a dispensable intermediary whose fees could presumably be eliminated by contracting directly with the underlying advisers.

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As a result, the practice of traditional management of treating employees as dispensable becomes counter-productive.

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While you may think that CIOs in this scenario are doomed to become as dispensable as the light switch they are supposed to keep turned on, Gartner provides a big data escape hatch to a redefined career path.

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