As a result, the firms' return on common shareholder equity, or ROE, which measures the efficiency of a company's earnings power, has collapsed.

因此，这些银行反映盈利效率的指标——普通股东权益回报率都大幅下降。

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If that is so, the political system that General Musharraf devised to keep himself in power has all but collapsed.

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But oddly, the UK has retained some capability to "project power" in far corners of the world at the precise moment that the political will to do so has collapsed, because of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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