Now, some economists have suggested that allowing more foreigners into the U. S. -- say, an immigrant who buys a house in exchange for a green card -- would actually help jump-start the economy.

如今，一些经济学家建议，允许更多外国人进入美国（比如，用买房来换取绿卡）实际上将有助于启动美国经济。

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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders considered it a dangerous precedent in which U. s. companies could threaten to leave the U. s. in exchange for government incentives.

佛蒙特州联邦参议员桑德斯认为这是一个危险的先例，美国公司可以用离开美国为要挟，换取激励措施。

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The U. S. has long backed Europe's pick for the head of the International Monetary Fund, as it did last year, in exchange for European support for the U. S. choice at the World Bank.

正如去年一样，美国长期以来支持欧洲挑选国际货币基金组织总裁人选，作为交换，欧洲支持美国决定世行行长候选人。

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"Rather than have Brazil retaliate against us, the U.S.has found a way to bribe Brazil,if you will, to not impose that retaliation in exchange for various things the U.S.says it will do."

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Nourizadeh says Iran was probably hoping to win the release of five Iranian military men captured by U.S.forces in Kurdistan in 2005 in exchange for Saberi, but eventually realized that such a trade would not work.

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It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

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The ethics panel has been examining allegations Jackson or one of his associates offered to raise funds for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.

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The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

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He orchestrated the deal under which the U.S. would pay its dues owned to the U.N. in exchange for reforms at the U.N.

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