If, like most writers these days, you're holding down a job to pay the bills, it's not easy to find the time to write.

如果你像现在的大多数作家一样，干着一份养家糊口的工作，那么要腾出时间写作确实不容易。

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We have simply incurred more technical debt than we would like and now is a good time to pay it down.

只是我们欠下了足够多的技术债，再也无法忍受，而现在是还债的好时候。

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At that time Mr. Murdoch strongly hinted that he would tear down the pay wall and let everyone in free.

那个时候，默多克还强烈暗示，他要取消收费制度，让所有人免费浏览。

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Issued during a period of historically low interest rates--for adjustable-rate mortgages, they clocked in below 4% in 2003--many mortgages allowed buyers to pay only the interest on a loan for a certain period of time, or pay down very little on loan principal.

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Because stock ownership, even by large institutional investors, is so widely dispersed, the potential return an investor can get by being an activist shareholder is too low to justify spending his or her time and money on efforts to hold down unnecessary pay and spending.

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So I laid out a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, and then some -- a plan that not only pays for the bill to put folks back to work to raise our growth rate, but to also pay down more of our debt over time.

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