To get the inside scoop, big-time columnists sometimes befriend top policymakers and offer informal advice over lunch or drinks.

为得到内部独家新闻，一流专栏作家有时会与上层决策者交上朋友，并在午餐会或酒会上提供非正式的建议。

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Greener growth top priority for policy makers The Chinese economy is maintaining red-hot growth, but now top policymakers are considering how to build a greener economy... More.

优先发展“绿色”增长模式中国经济正在飞速发展，但是现在上层政策制定者正在考虑如何构建绿色经济…详全文。

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Convincing the top economic policymakers of these two countries to sit around a table was an achievement in itself.

说服中美两国高层经济决策者坐到谈判桌前，本身就是一项成就。

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He boasted that the warmth of his ties with George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice and the other top policymakers in Washington, was unsurpassed in Israeli history.

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The two east Asian great powers quietly buried the hatchet 25 years ago and, at least as far as top policymakers are concerned, their relations have long been remarkably close and even warm.

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Most observers would prefer the ECB's top policymakers to say a lot less and, when they do speak, to do it in a co-ordinated way, much like the Fed, where Mr Greenspan is the prime spokesman.

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