Would we be less virtuous?

我们是不是缺乏美德了？

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But there are less virtuous reasons why the hospitals offered such a generous-sounding deal.

但是人们不知道医院愿意放弃这样一笔利润的背后仍有很多不太高尚的原因。

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Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

然而，专家和官员们选择我们的同伴们，并将其活动引向良性方向的顺利程度有几何尚无法确定。

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It sounds less virtuous if you see it as an attempt to make sure this argument runs into election year, and indeed the campaign is prosecuted with a rerun of this row in the background.

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Even those with less than virtuous motives.

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It means less folks are being hired, and we can be back in a downward spiral instead of the kind of virtuous cycle that we want to see.

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