Silly prices like that send the wrong signal to the market.

不合理的价格给市场传递了错误的信息。

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Georgian political analyst Romaz Sakbarelidze at the Strategic Research Center in Tbilisi noted the NATO exercises were planned long before the August conflict, and said it would send the wrong political signal to cancel them now.

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This might make military sense, but Mr Roh worries it will send the wrong signal to North Korea, at least until the nuclear crisis is resolved.

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Not only will it send the wrong signal to potential foreign investors, but the Indian Government may also end up paying huge sums of money because of the complex web of contract guarantees agreed with Enron.

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Some South Koreans believe that a reduction in American troop numbers will send the wrong signal to the North, which despite years of brandishing its nuclear-weapons programmes has yet to be punished in any meaningful way.

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