On one side there are serious people - people who believe that we should raise interest rates in the face of high unemployment and falling inflation, because, well, that's what serious people do.

一方面是严肃的人们，他们认为，面对失业率升高与通胀率降低我们应该提高利率，因为，嗯，这是严肃的人们的做法。

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Listed retailers, by contrast, often face pressure to raise prices in order to meet short-term financial goals.

相反，上市零售商经常面临，需靠抬高售价以达到短期的资金目标的压力。

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Despite being first out of the blocks, Xstrata and Rio Tinto show just how tortuous it is to raise equity when investors have been hammered and may face liquidity problems of their own.

尽管是首先开跑，斯特拉塔和力拓表明在投资者已经敲定并可能面对他们自身的资产折现力问题时，增股是十分不易的。

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Proposals to raise their taxes to help pay for the plan face objections, and not just from the Republican minority in Congress.

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Some of those activists participated in the Human Rights Accords in Dayton Ohio, a two-day conference to help raise awareness about the problems victims face.

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My guess is that the NCAA would raise the face value of tickets as well, but that increase would not be enough to offset the lost ticket revenue associated with selling nearly 50, 000 fewer tickets.

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Despite the overabundance of European regulations, there is apparently none to require banks to raise capital or face being shut down.

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Listed retailers, by contrast, often face pressure to raise prices in order to meet short-term financial goals.

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