British mobile phone company Vodaphone PLC reported a 3 percent gain in operating profits and raised its expected year-end profits due to faster than expected growth.

英国电信企业沃达丰集团公布第三季度营运利润增长3%，提高了年终利润预期，主要是因为利润增长好于预计。

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EMI looks vulnerable after issuing a profit warning in February, due to lower than expected recorded-music sales.

由于未能达到预期的唱片销量，二月份emi发出了盈利预警，之后就显得有些不堪一击。

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Belgian yields hit a new high of 5.85% and are expected to go above 6% at an auction due on Monday.

比利时国债收益率也创下了新高——5.85%，市场预期在周一的拍卖中利率会跨过6%。

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A report is due in June that is expected to show what progress has been made toward saving the lives of mothers, babies and children who do not need to die.

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The U.S. wireless industry association said that American consumers would likely see a universal cellphone charger sooner than expected, due, in part, to a recent European initiative.

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She then took out a loan against her house in order to grow maize but things did not go as well as she had expected due to a severe drought and she almost lost her house.

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When used to process unclassified information, sharing cloud computing resources can nominally provide the operational advantages of a private cloud with a cost closer to that of a public cloud due to the expected economies of scale from combined user communities.

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