Business leaders often view software quality as a luxury — something that can be sacrificed, if necessary, for more functionality, faster development, or lower costs.

Illustration商业领导人常常将软件质量视为一种奢侈——如果有必要的话，为了更多的功能、更快速的开发或者更低的成本，其可以被牺牲。

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One way to lower costs will be to forge alliances with foreign companies or to expand internationally through appropriate takeovers – in short, to "globalize."

降低成本的途径之一将是与外国公司结成联盟或通过适当的兼并进行国际性扩张–简言之，就是“全球化”。

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These companies are drawn to China not chiefly by its lower labor costs or the opportunity to compete in the local market.

这些公司有意进入中国的原因主要不在于其低廉的劳动力成本或者是国内市场的竞争机会。

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Or lower costs,more opportunity, more freedom or more choice.

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Bigger government,more mandates, more control,less freedom, or lower costs,more opportunity, more freedom or more choice.

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"This legislation will reduce or eliminate some of those tariffs, which will significantly lower costs for American companies across the manufacturing landscape, from cars to chemicals, medical devices to sporting goods."

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That in other areas might vary one way or the other, to higher or lower costs per tonne not emitted.

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The question is, are the costs of treating the illnesses and deaths brought on by those three indulgences higher or lower than the costs of treating those who live healthily but still inevitably die?

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It is the biggest seller of pens and markers in the world and the top seller of picture frames, but it has made scant effort to squeeze suppliers or move production to Asia or Mexico to lower costs.

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