After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.

毕竟，在过去五六年里，美国人中认为大学学历“非常重要”的比例急剧下降。

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In effect, she is paying $5 in interest for a $90 loan for two months: the equivalent of a credit card with a 44 percent annual percentage rate, a level most of us would consider predatory.

实际上，她已经预付了90美元两个月5%的利息，相当于44%信用卡的年费，大多数人都会认为它达到了掠夺的程度。

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An increase of one percentage point in state unemployment rates correlated with a 0.5 percentage point decline in the death rate - or about 5 fewer deaths per 100, 000 people.

州失业率升高1个百分点与死亡率降低0.5个百分点相关联——或者说，大约每100,000人中少死5人。

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He represents areas of Brooklyn where a large percentage of the nearly 5 million stops have occurred during the past decade, mostly of black and Hispanic men.

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The outlook for global growth also got a boost after the European Central bank cuts its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 percent.

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