According to the report, increasing imports in concentrated industries from zero to 25 percent of domestic sales reduces oligopoly profit mark-ups by 8 percent through lower prices to consumers.

报告认为，在集中化程度高的行业把进口额占国内销售额的比例从零增加到25%可以通过降低消费价格将寡头垄断的利润率降低8%。

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The only way that companies can prosper in these markets is to cut costs relentlessly and accept profit margins close to zero.

在这些市场里，企业唯一能做的就是拼命地压缩成本和缩减利润。

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Boston-based State Street Corp. , the third-largest custody bank, on Nov. 30 said it will cut 1,400 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs as interest rates near zero erode profit.

总部位于波士顿的第三大托管银行美国道富公司，11月30日表示它将裁员1400人，即5%的工作岗位，以此来降低成本，从而减少零利率对利润的侵蚀。

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Yale University is a non-profit corporation; the price of a share in Yale University is undefined-- it's zero over zero.

耶鲁大学可以看作是个非盈利组织,它的股价无法定义,是零除以零

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One a larger level, we came up with an idea and started to learn fashion industry from zero and we strategized everything as if it was a ordinary for-profit one.

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The burdens of this zero-sum-gain strategy will fall most painfully upon low-income consumers and small-profit-margin businesses who can least afford them.

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If they rise, a real possibility because of the end of QE II, we would not be surprised to see a profit-starved banking system give it a go, especially in a world of guaranteed, near zero short-term funding rates.

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