down systems, high development costs, unmanageable production environments and unhappy customers.

系统宕机、高开发成本、不可控的生产环境以及满脸怒色的客户。

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Time factor:Many test automation efforts are custom developed, which leads to high development and maintenance costs.

时间因素：有许多测试自动化效果得到了通用的开发，这就使得开发和维护的成本上升。

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High levels of lead could damage the intellectual development of children.

高含铅量会损害儿童的智力发育。

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Industry personnel tell me that the high development cost and long approval cycle has been a significant barrier.

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So when they turned to biotechnology in the 1990s to help boost their flagging sales and offset high development costs, such companies focused on easy traits that would be of immediate interest to farmers, their traditional customer, rather than to food manufacturers or shoppers.

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When countries were classified in 1990 by their status in the United Nations Human Development Index (an index of income, literacy and health), high-development countries achieved robust and stable economic growth during 1990-98, with average growth rates of around 2.3% a year and with 35 out of 36 countries enjoying rising living standards.

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