Use of customer lifetime value as a marketing metric tends to place greater emphasis on customer service and long-term customer satisfaction, rather than on maximizing short-term sales.

将客户生命周期价值作为市场营销的衡量标准倾向于强调客户服务和长期的客户满意度而不是最大化短期销售额。

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There is no better success metric and it leads to less waste in the long run.

没有更好的方法了，而且从长远来看，这会减少浪费。

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Now the happy couple can see each other every couple of weeks—while their long, solo trips down I-95 spit out an extra 3.6 metric tons of CO2 every year.

如此，这对幸福的恋人可以每两个星期见一次面了，然而，他们每年在95号州际公路（I-95）（见注3）上的独自旅行仍排放了3.6吨的CO2。

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Today Courtice Steel makes good money, producing 250, 000 metric tons of long products a year.

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And any long-term deficiency of either metric is not good for the stock.

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You can also use YCharts Stock Screener to find companies with a strong ROE and then chart that metric to see how long the stock has been a strong ROE-er.

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