The cutbacks may come as a shock to many bankers who had spied opportunity in the last crisis.

对于很多曾在上次危机中捡到机会的银行从来者来说，现在的裁员行动可能让他们大感意外。

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After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets.

在2005年个人储蓄率降至零之后，去年经济危机的冲击促使人们迅速捂紧钱包。

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However tarnished, the U.S. is the last superpower, and in times of crisis, the world still looks to it.

尽管美国已经失去了往日的光耀，但它仍是一个超级大国。危机时刻，世界对它寄予厚望。

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Many people blamed the Greek crisis for the sudden drop in American stock markets last Thursday.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The global financial crisis that began last year led even more investors to see gold as a haven in troubled times.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

He thinks that last month - on the one-year anniversary of widespread street protests in Iran- many journalists there were reliving some of the stress of last year's election crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The losses of Royal Bank of Scotland in the last crisis, over three years or so, would not be a million miles from that.

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In the last crisis, taxpayers made a nice business out of relieving a bank panic that arose, circularly, from fear that taxpayers would not act to relieve a bank panic.

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In the last financial crisis, AIG-FP was not hedged on its big bet to sell off-exchange CDS protection.

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