The agreement this week to move to quarterly contracts based on spot prices marks the end of the annual benchmark system that has lasted 40 years.

本周达成的协议转向以现货价为基础的季度合约，这标志着已持续40年的年度基准合 约体系寿终正寝。

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Even by the end of the 19th century, however, new technologies began to emerge, many of them based on the same principles first developed for the telegraph system.

虽然到了19世纪末新的科学技术开始崛起，但是许多技术都是基于与最初发明电报同样的原理。

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We will show how a common Web services-based interface can help you integrate a back-end system into a J2EE environment.

我们将展示基于 Web 服务的公共接口如何帮助您把一个后端系统集成到 J2EE 环境中。

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And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.

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Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.

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