In the past 50 years, bureaucrats helped develop the industrial policies that turned Japan from post-war collapse to the second-biggest economy in the world.

在过去的50年间，这些官僚们大力发展工业政策，使日本在战后废墟上建成了世界第二大经济国家。

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"All alike expect and fear a post-war collapse," Alvin Hansen of Harvard University, a leading economist of the time, wrote in 1942.

“所有人都在猜想并且担心战后经济会崩溃”，当时的首席经济学家，哈弗大学的Alvin Hansen在1942年这样写道。

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As we all know, after years of use, buildings will always have a certain post-settlement, which often led to uneven settlement of the building collapse, cracking and seriously affect the use.

众所周知，建筑物在经过多年的使用后总会产生一定的沉降，而不均匀沉降往往会导致建筑物塌陷、开裂并严重影响使用。

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Lemme make my case: The post-2006 collapse in housing starts plumbed an unprecedented depth, from 2 million starts to the 2009 nadir of 500, 000 units.

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The immediate post-Cold War years saw a collapse of economies in both the former East Bloc and in South America.

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