They note that consumer expenditures have been rising for half a year, and take-home pay has increased 3.4 percent over the past 12 months.

他们指出，消费者支出在半年内已上升，扣税后的实得工资在过去12个月内增长了3.4个百分点。

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Dagong, which has maintained a pessimistic outlook on US fiscal policy, has been leading the charge to downgrade US debt over the last 12 months, lowering the US rating from AA to a + a year ago.

大公公司一直对美国的财政政策持悲观态度，在过去的12个月里主导了对美国的债务降级，并在一年前将美国评级从AA降级到A +。

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Then, make a list of 10 goals that you would like to achieve over the next 12 months. write your goals in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already achieved them.

然后写下10个你希望在接下来的12个月实现的目标，请用现在时态写你的目标，就好像1年已经过去，你已经实现了它们。

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Problems in the UK have been one of the reasons behind Thomas Cook's disastrous last 12 months, a year that has seen its share price slump by 70%.

BBC: Thomas Cook shop

The year of 2012 is drawing to a close and what a 12 months it has been.

ENGADGET: Editor's Letter: Looking back

Meanwhile a 17-year-old from Suffolk has been banned from using social networking sites for 12 months and ordered to observe a three month overnight curfew for using Facebook to encourage people to riot during last week's disorder.

BBC: Some England riot sentences 'too severe'