This weekend we spent eight hours in the backseat of a car traveling back and forth from New York City to the Southern Tier of New York.

这个周末，我们花了整整八个小时开车往返奔波于纽约市区和纽约南区之间。

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La Nina tends to steer winter storms over the northern states, and El Nino more typically brings storms across the southern tier of the nation.

“拉尼娜”在北部各州会产生冬季风暴，“厄尔尼诺”则倾向于产生能够横跨国家南部各层的风暴。

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Just as weak southern-tier economies need to free up their Labour and product markets and boost competitiveness, so surplus countries like Germany need to promote spending at home.

就像南线弱小经济体需要解放他们的劳动力、实现商品市场的自由化及提升竞争力一样，德国这样的预算盈余国则需要提高国内消费需求。

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Cuomo will make a decision on whether to allow the potentially lucrative drilling in the economically distressed Southern Tier.

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Most new plants are going into the southern tier of states where labor is both cheaper and much more often, non-union.

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Some of this growth is centered on the automobile industry, which is increasingly focused on the southern tier from South Carolina to Alabama.

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