In nearby Guangdong province, so many factories are shuttering without paying employees that some workers are resigning pre-emptively and demanding immediate pay before their employers go bankrupt.

邻近的广东省，许多企业由于不能支付员工薪水，工人放弃在企业破产前抢先和费力地立刻要回工资。

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Evolution has programmed humans to pay most attention to issues that will have an immediate impact.

进化已经使得人类把大部分注意力放在那些会产生直接影响的问题上。

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And cutting back on black carbon will also pay immediate health dividends, with less air pollution and fewer deaths from respiratory diseases.

减少炭黑排放还能带来健康的额外好处，因为空气污染少了，死于呼吸道疾病的人也少了。

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Those savings may take some time to filter through into hard cash and it may be that the government could fill the gap to allow an immediate pay rise.

BBC: Blair warns strikers they cannot win

The head of the rail company, SNCF, offered an immediate pay increase of 0.7% with an additional 0.5% later in the year as well as a pause in the restructuring.

BBC: France crippled by rail strike

Rather than using coaching and scout resources to gain an advantage in scouting or strategic development during a work stoppage many owners have already inserted lockout clause which allows for an immediate reduction in pay and even termination in the event of a prolonged work stoppage.

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