Telex service is more convenient and economy than telegram service, therefore now most messages of foreign trade corporations are sent out by telex.

电传比电报更方便、更省钱，因此目前外贸公司大部分的电文都用电传发送。

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Between 1926, the year he began his Foreign Service career, in Geneva, and 1946, when he made a heroic return from Moscow as the author of the primal document of Cold War foreign policy, the Long Telegram, Kennan lived mostly abroad.

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