For several hours the base was locked down and plunged into confusion, amid misplaced fears that more than one gunman was at large.

随后基地在几个小时内呈关闭状态，并有流言称还有枪手目前在逃。基地被流言和恐惧所包围。

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Programmers and administrators are notorious for allowing themselves to be coerced into rushing work that would be better left for normal business hours and the relative calm of your own workplace.

程序员和管理员本可以在正常的上班时间里在自己比较安静的工作场所工作，但是他们却喜欢强迫自己突击完成这些工作，这可是出了名的。

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That will dump more jobless people into a weak job market, making it harder for those already unemployed to find work and pressing down wages and hours.

这将使原本就岌岌可危的就业市场中挤满更多的失业者，不仅会让那些已经失业的人更加难以找到工作，而且薪酬和工作时间也将变得更少。

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Pakistan's government has ordered an inquiry into the cause of a nationwide power cut that plunged the country into darkness for a few hours.

BBC: Pakistan orders inquiry into nationwide power cut

At the other end of the age-scale, he wants to inveigle twice that number of retired people back into teaching by promising that anyone who tutors a child for 500 hours can earn a college scholarship for a grandchild.

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Crossing the border from downtown L.A. into the strange country that springs up for 48 hours every year required passing through no fewer than seven police checkpoints.

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