Compared with the long-term value of getting new contracts with cabin staff as BA readies itself for the completion of the merger with Iberia, the cost of the strikes is well worth absorbing.

在英航准备完成并购伊比利亚航空公司之际，与同空乘人员达成新的合同的长期价值相比，罢工的成本是值得吸纳的。

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While the Center for Security Policy has long believed that closing this gaping loophole is essential if the economic sanctions imposed last year are to have any appreciable impact, the advance notice thus given virtually assures that a whole host of new long-term contracts for Libyan oil are being drawn up now.

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Meanwhile, the new government says it will sign long-term contracts with Norway's power-intensive light-metals and timber industries to help keep them in world business.

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Distribution firms will be able to buy only 5% of their power on the spot market, down from the 15% originally proposed, to make them seek long-term contracts with new gas-fired generators, whose fuel purchases will be subsidised.

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