The idea that my mother might be somewhere rather than nowhere is one that's hard for the skeptical empiricist in me to swallow.

我的母亲也许仍然活在某个地方而不是消失无踪了的想法是我心中作为怀疑经验主义者的那部分难以接受的。

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Within the single-currency area competitiveness has to be regained the hard way by pushing down domestic costs or increasing productivity rather than the easier-to-swallow medicine of devaluation.

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