The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time" watching television.

被抽样调查的儿童把他们迅速减少的“空闲时间”的四分之一都花在了看电视上。

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Hackel believes the ability to spot changes to cost of capital will bring superior performance over the long term, not a firm's free cash flows exceeding expectations in a given quarter.

哈克尔认为，发现资本成本变化的能力将给我们带来卓越的长期投资回报，而不只是企业在某特定季度中自由现金流超过预期的一时惊喜。

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It's no surprise that free shipping is popular this holiday season; 41 percent of online retail transactions for the third quarter of 2010 included free shipping.

对于在假日购物季中免运费的欢迎程度，我们无需惊讶。2010年第三季度中的免运费比例占在线销售交易的41%。

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In the least free, a quarter of young children are unprotected against diseases like measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough.

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But the company said fewer than 8, 000 people engaged in that "free-trial gaming" out of the millions of free trials in the quarter.

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Still, inventory is no longer in free-fall nationally: quarter-over-quarter inventory declines are milder now than they were in the months just after prices bottomed 1 year ago.

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