Some believe that this strategy played a central role in an effective restruturing of U.S. business during the 1980s and 1990s and into the 21st century.

有人认为这种策略在1980 至1990甚至在21世纪对美国企业的重组起着主要作用。

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There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists.

本世纪的最初二十五年中，在巴黎附近的孟费? 地方有一家大致象饭店那样的客店，现在已经不在了。

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The researchers found a causal linkage with a decline in average human height by nearly an inch during this period, and the century was rife with disease and conflict.

研究人员发现，这是造成这一时期人类平均高度下降将近一英寸的原因，而在这一百年中，瘟疫和战乱频繁发生。

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No climate model has predicted a complete shutdown during this century, though many suggest that a slowdown is possible.

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Yet all this happened during a century when the Earth's average temperature rose by abut 0.7C - raising the question of whether warmer temperatures and wetter conditions in some regions really would influence malaria transmission.

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This is still slow going during a century which has seen 149 such commissions including, among others, one on arsenic in beer and one on university education in Dundee.

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