A third of companies reviewing pay since last August have imposed a pay freeze of up to a year.

自去年8月以来，在审检工资发放的公司中，有三分之一已经强行实施工资冻结长达1年。

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Growth has stopped, the rouble has lost more than a third of its value since August and inflation is running at around 13% a year.

经济增长已经停滞，从八月份至今卢布已经贬值超过三分之一，通货正以每年13%的速度膨胀。

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It has lost a third of its value against the dollar since August.

自八月至今，卢布对美元的比例已下跌近三分之一。

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In the most recent survey, about 39% of investors were considered bullish, which is historically a pretty low figure and would place it in the lower third of August readings over the past 30 years.

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What is it that allows, say, Derek Jeter to perform better in the ninth inning of an October playoff game against the Baltimore Orioles, than in, say, the third inning of an August regular season game against the Kansas City Royals?

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Moreover, Sanderson Farms, which announced results for its fiscal third quarter at the end of August, reminded investors at that time that that struggle may not be at an end.

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