Washington Mutual, America’s largest savings-and-loan bank, helped its share price by declaring it would be able to withstand the latest cut in its credit rating.

美国最大的储蓄借贷银行——华盛顿互惠银行声明它会抵御住信誉等级降低的影响。 这项声明提升了其股价。

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In a pilot program started in 2006, the company says, it promised participating distributors that it would share savings that resulted by cutting their prices by 2% to 4%.

公司始于2006年的一项调查表明，参与该项目的经销商获得了2％到4％的价格优惠，而公司也节省了开支。

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The personal savings rate - the share of after-tax income saved - reached a low of about 1 percent in 2005.

在2005年个人储蓄率——税后收入储蓄比重——低至1个百分点。

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In 1998, Japanese households increased the share of their (declining) incomes that they put into savings from an average rate of 12% in 1990-96 to 15-16%.

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