The International Monetary Fund last week forecast that the U.S. economy would contract by 2.8 percent this year, after expanding by about one percent last year.

然而上个星期，国际货币基金组织预测说，美国经济在去年增长了大约1%之后，今年将收缩2.8%。

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Thirty million Americans now work from home at least one day a week, with that number forecast to increase sharply in the coming years, according to the Telework Reseach Network.

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This year the French economy will race ahead by a mighty 4.2%, according to a forecast to be published next week by one leading French think-tank a figure that begins to hint at American-style rates of growth.

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