Real estate prices have cooled and stock prices peaked in October 2007 after a two-year boom that saw shares rise six-fold in value.

在看见价值翻六倍的两年繁荣后，在2007年十月房地产降温，股票达到最高点。

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But there still exists a real need to bring smaller and mid-sized companies into the Six Sigma fold, because collectively they might represent as much as 75%-80% of total value stream activity.

但是仍存在现实的需要将中小型公司带入六西格玛的阵营，因为全部中小型公司可能占总的价值链活动的75%到80%。

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The real need to bring smaller and mid-sized companies into the Six Sigma fold can be satisfied with the right deployment model.

可以通过正确的实施模式来满足把中小型公司带入六西格玛阵营的现实需要。

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It's a matter of time before the real and the virtual fold into each other on the wireless Web, says Wonhee Sull, vice president of platform development at SK Telecom.

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For those who think my analogy too facile, check out the research of MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, who has shown that half of the six-fold rise in real per-capita health spending from 1950 to 1990 can be explained by the introduction of Medicare.

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Focusing on those markets should help Wal-Mart get past the mistakes that forced it to fold its tent in South Korea, where poor real estate choices gave it bad locations, and in Germany, where it misread the local norms for shopping hours and labor laws.

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