Even a former top executive of one of the miners conceded that true competition on pricing would be difficult to foster, when the cost base was the same.

甚至连其中一家矿商的一位前任高管都承认，当成本基础相同时，将很难培育在定价上真正的竞争。

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"The pandas will be comfortable living here as it is not far from the former base," Huang was quoted as saying.

黄表示：“大熊猫会生活得非常舒适，因为这里距原来的基地不远。”

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Devens, as the site of a former military base, is a designated enterprise zone eligible for state financial support.

德文斯，曾是一个军事基地，现在则用于州财政支持企业的开办地。

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Although the revised plan involves anti-ballistic missiles installed at a former air base in Poland, defense experts say Moscow perceives the new project as less threatening to its security.

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As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.

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Seems like a simple lesson (the first few years of your career constitute an eight-hour-a-day test, FYI), but the hilariously haughty and utterly off-base email from a former lifeguard to his old boss published by Deadspin shows that not all young ladder climbers have grasped this logic.

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