At a time of economic downturn, the world simply cannot afford to let a threat of this magnitude, complexity, and cost spiral out of control.

在经济衰退时期，世界已无法再容忍有如此巨大而复杂且成本失控的威胁存在。

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It HAS been over ten days since the magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan, and we are still without reliable estimates on the extent of the economic and human cost of this natural disaster.

发生在日本北部的震级9.0级大地震已经过去10天了，我们仍然没有在这次自然灾难中造成的经济和人员损失方面的确切估计值。

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Of this total, Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake recorded 8.0-magnitude, causing a direct economic loss of 845.1 billion yuan.

其中，四川汶川地震震级达8.0级，造成直接经济损失8451亿元。

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All it asks is that China keep in mind that demographic magnitude, economic weight and military power by themselves do not command respect.

CNN: VIEWPOINT

By elimination, Ms. McCloskey concludes that culture and rhetoric are the only factors that can account for economic change of the magnitude we have seen in the developed world in past 250 years.

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The rescue of the eurozone is a political and economic challenge of a magnitude that the EU has not faced since its creation in the 1950s and neither Merkel nor Hollande look to be leaders who have the capacity for the bold leadership on European integration that their predecessors demonstrated across successive decades.

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