Limit your schedule, whether that means eliminating your favorite TV show or cutting back on a few social events, and put the extra time into job hunting.

给自己的计划设定期限，不管这意味着要放弃你最喜爱的电视节目还是削减社交活动，将节省下来的时间投入到找工作上。

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Provincial environmental agencies quickly followed suit, cutting the allotted time limit to review environmental impact assessments from the maximum 60 days to as few as five days in one province.

省一级环保部门迅速跟进，某省将原来环境审批的周期从60天削减到5天。

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“Around 90% of the productivity growth in corporate America has come from cost-cutting, and that is now reaching its limit, ” says Carsten Stendevad of Citigroup’s corporate-advisory arm.

“公司化的美国大约90%的生产力增长是由于削减成本，而这已达极限。” 花旗的企业顾问Carsten Stendevad说道。

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In 2008, MPs voted on cutting the limit for the first time since 1990.

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For the Conservatives, Alex Johnstone said "a case may exist" for cutting the limit to deal with the "scourge" of drink-driving, but argued the focus of the police may change as a result.

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One basic rule for limit-making is that the burden of proof should fall on those who want change especially since the changers often want to keep on changing indefinitely: cutting the abortion limit by a fortnight was, for some, merely an interim goal on the way to a tighter squeeze or an outright ban.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot