That's the challenge that traditional luxury brands will have to contend with in the mid-to long-term future.

这是传统奢侈品在中长期的未来不得不应对的挑战。

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The answer to #2 is that Wall Street hedge funds, using techniques pioneered in the mid-90s by Long Term Capital Management, have figured out ways to borrow large sums of money at virtually no cost.

第二个问题的答案是， 华尔街的对冲基金运用90年代中期长期资本管理公司开发的技术，计算出借大笔的钱而成本几乎可以不计的方法。

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Inward migration last year reached its highest level since the current method of counting was introduced 17 years ago, with 605,000 long-term migrants arriving in the 12 months to mid-2007.

去年移民流入达到自17年前开始采用现行计算方法以来的最高水平。在截至2007年中期的12个月中，长期移民人数达到60.5万人。

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And then, of course, the long-term or even mid-term effects on the economy would be significant on growth and on job creation.

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Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term.

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It is likely the reaction this time will be the same -- compensation will rise, but banks in the mid-to-long term won't need to have to pay big basic salaries and slowly businesses that don't need to be in the EU will cease to be.

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