Without strong gains in incomes, the growth in consumer spending has to a large extent been based on increases in house prices and credit.

因为没有强劲的收入增长，消费支出增长在很大程度上以房价上升和信贷增加为基础。

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To a large extent, people declare that a project has either succeeded or failed based on whether it met their expectations.

在很大程度上，根据项目是否满足期望，人们能够断言项目是成功或是失败。

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All are based, to one extent or another, on the idea that people are irrational actors, and that markets aren't always efficient.

所有这些理论都或多或少以一个假设为基础：即人并不是理性的行为体，市场也不总是有效的。

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Agreed targets include: to increase the extent of land-based protected areas and national parks to 17% (up from 12.5%), to extend marine protected areas to 10% (up from under 1% at present), and to restore at least 15% of degraded areas through conservation and restoration.

UNESCO: Global Deal to Protect Nature

The continuing reluctance to engage to the greatest possible extent in flexible market-based ways of reducing emissions not only makes control of greenhouse gases vastly more expensive than it would otherwise be (a good thing, admittedly, in the view of many environmentalists).

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

In addition, Facebook (and, to a lesser extent, Twitter) hold location-based data that could be utilized for its users base.

FORBES: How The Web 'Check In' Is Growing Up