Nevertheless, the ECB has some sound reasons for tightening policy. First, it places more weight on the headline rate of inflation than on the core measure.

尽管如此，欧洲中央银行仍摆出冠冕堂皇的理由实施紧缩政策，首先，他们声称把侧重点放在了标题通货膨胀利率上而不是核心措施的处理。

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With that in mind, the first step in diminishing complexity is to understand the degree of complexity involved; i.e., we need a way to measure it.

基于这一思想，逐渐缩小复杂性的第一个步骤就是理解所涉及到的复杂性的程度；也就是，我们需要一种测量方法。

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Not much of a game, perhaps, but it provides a good measure of the first player's sense of fairness, since he has the power to be as unfair as he likes.

或许作为一个游戏，这并不好玩，但它提供了一个衡量公平观念的好办法，因为只要第一家愿意，他有权做不公平的事。

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"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

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Such was the outcry over the first measure that it was neutered by amendment, but only after it became clear that the second could be pushed through by the autumn, when Mr Berlusconi's bribery trial is due to end.

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In my book, Employee Engagement 2.0, I explain how the first step to improving anything is to measure it, and employee satisfaction and employee engagement are no different.

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If Bush does veto the measure, it would be the first veto he's ever levied.

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