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In the end, these efforts struggled to overcome low pay, runaway salaries at the top, single-parent households and other real-world trends that kept poverty and inequality stubbornly high.

最后，这些努力在面对上层低薪没有固定收入的单亲家庭以及现实世界中持续让贫困差距扩大的趋势时，还是失势了。

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The world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.

全世界还有十年时间来减少日益汹涌的温室气体排放，否则就将面临气候变化失控导致这个星球上许多地区变得不适宜人类居住的危险。

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We leave you with that song, "Runaway," from "World Wide Open."

VOA: special.2009.09.11

"Copenhagen can and must be the turning point in the world's efforts to prevent runaway climate change and usher in a new era of green growth for all,".

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If anywhere was the canary in the mine forewarning us of the disaster predicted in low lying areas of the world if runaway climate change takes hold, it's right here.

CNN: Drowning islands warn of future perils for 'environmental refugees'

In just a few chapters, he outlines the forces that brought the world to the brink of a bust: a house-price bubble boosted by runaway mortgage lending in the rich world, particularly America, a lightly regulated global financial system that found ever-more creative ways to speculate on rising house prices, and macroeconomic policymaking that was far too laid back about the dangers posed by asset-price bubbles.

ECONOMIST: The reasons for the crisis and how to stop it happening again

Kaymer's runaway victory and elevation to world number two means that with Lee Westwood - who finished a lowly 64th - in top spot, Europeans hold the top two positions in the rankings for the first time since Nick Faldo and Bernhard Langer in 1993.

BBC: Abu Dhabi win lifts Martin Kaymer to second in world