Management has given a pledge that there will be no job losses this year.

资方保证今年不会削减工作职位。

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Research shows that given 15 minutes of free play, four- and five-year-olds will spend a third of this time engaged in spatial, mathematical, and architectural activities.

研究表明，如果给定15分钟的自由玩耍时间，四到五岁的孩子会将其中三分之一的时间花在有关空间、数学和建筑的活动上。

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Nevertheless, the change of mood is remarkable, given that earlier this year many feared a repeat of the Depression.

但无论如何，情绪的转变是意义重大的，毕竟今年早些之时，人们还在担心大萧条重临。

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While at the same time as I say congratulations, I want to remind you that I think it comes as no surprise given the lateness of Labor Day this year that this first test came rather early and for many of you much of this material you had seen in high school.

当我对你们表示祝贺的同时，我也想提醒你，今年晚来的劳动节,并非是什么惊喜,第一个测试来的比较早,你们中的绝大多数在高中已经见过了。

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Suppose that in a given year--and say this is minus five and this is plus five, this is minus five and this is plus five-- suppose that in the first year in our sample, the company Shiller, Inc. and the market both did 5%.

假设某一年...这里设为-5,这里+5,这是-5,这是+5,我们假设第一年中,希勒公司.和市场都获利5%

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"Given that, this year, WWF have chosen the focus of Earth Hour to be renewable energy, I am delighted that new You Gov polling shows cross-party support for wind energy, " he said.

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The government may also want to give some momentum to any natural cooling that could come this year, given that authorities forecast the economy to grow 1% to 3% in 2013, potentially faster than 2012's 1.2% expansion but considerably slower than in 2010 and 2011.

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But given that this is an election year in America, the potential for grandstanding is endless.

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