They were able to keep on increasing their yields in spite of the bad year.

尽管年成不好，他们还是继续提高了产量。

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Note in particular that in 1937-38 FDR was persuaded to do the “responsible” thing and cut back — and that’s what led to the bad year in 1938, which to the WSJ crowd defines the New Deal.

特别注意，在1937-38罗斯福被劝说做”负责任“的事并且削减开支——而这恰恰导致了1938年的糟糕状况。

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Low interest rates are bad news for savers, who have seen their income halved over the last year.

低利率对储户来说是个坏消息，他们在过去一年就看到了收入减半。

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"The bad news is that we still have 1.8-million deaths per year from tuberculosis.

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As reported contemporaneously in 2000,the number was -3.1% but if you look at the number reported for 2005, because bad records had disappeared and good records had been added, all of a sudden the average experience for that year went up to +1.2%.

000年期的公告中这个数字为负3.1%,但是如果你去查2005年公告的数字,坏记录已经调整而消失,有利的投资记录被加入,转瞬之间,年平均收益升至1.2%

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The hardcore people always find their way to the mountains, no matter how bad the year.

WSJ: Skier visits up 20 percent at Northeast ski areas

Since the end of that generally bad year, the timing of Skilling's departure has been a matter of conjecture.

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Since the pay of these plutocrats is highly variable, a bad year for them means a bad year for the taxman.

ECONOMIST: Governments will need to find new ways of raising tax