In the preceding decade, IBM appeared to be headed into extinction. From one SEC filing, it revealed that it lost nearly a billion dollars on the PC business over three-and-one-half years.

之前十年中，IBM似乎逐渐走向没落，根据美国证券交易委员会的一份文件表明，IBM在PC业务上三年半之内亏损了近10亿美元。

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The Federal Reserve's 2007 study of consumer finances found that almost half of households headed by someone 65 to 74 years old had a mortgage, and 37% carried credit-card balances.

美联储2007年对消费者财务的研究发现，近一半以65到74岁人士作主的家庭都还欠着房贷，37%拥有信用卡欠款。

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By the time Wilson left GM, almost half of all US families fell within the middle range of income. Most were headed not by professionals or executives but by skilled and semi-skilled factory workers.

到威尔逊离开通用汽车的时候，美国几乎一半的家庭都达到了中等收入水平，而多数一家之主并非专业人士或高管，而是技能娴熟和半熟练的工厂工人。

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Gary Hamilton should have got Glentoran back into the game in first-half injury-time as he headed a glorious chance over the crossbar.

BBC: Glentoran 1-3 Linfield

Or, in the case of Merritt, a self-conscious artist in the best sense, he knows that the accretion of detail over the course of these 13 songs has resulted in a realism that is vivid, hard-headed and never half-hearted.

NPR: The Magnetic Fields' Hard-Headed 'Realism'

The Italian champions ended a run of nine successive draws in European competition as Claudio Marchisio, Arturo Vidal and Sebastian Giovinco scored in the first half, while second-half substitute Fabio Quagliarella headed the other against the Danish league winners.

CNN: Barca's unbeaten run ended by Celtic