After a while, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string is stopping the kite from flying higher."

过了一会儿，儿子说：“爸爸，好像是线阻止了风筝飞得更高。”

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The father smiled and said, "The role of the string was not stopping the kite from flying higher, but helping it stay in the sky, because the kite itself can't fly up."

父亲笑着说：“线的作用不是阻止风筝飞得更高，而是帮助它留在天空中，因为风筝本身不能飞起来。”

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Can you get the kite flying higher?

你能让这风筝飞起来吗？

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Their troubles began in the 1950s when they started flying higher and needed to pressurise the cabins of their passenger planes.

ECONOMIST: Aircraft fatigue

By flying higher and lighter, they can last seven years, compared with five years for Iridium (with the first year al-ready gone).

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Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at USAA, still believes in stocks, and thinks that a big liquidity-driven rally based on central bank action later this week could send lower-quality companies flying higher.

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