The SEC said the new agreement will enable retail investors, small businesses and charities who purchased the securities from Merrill "to restore their losses and liquidity."

SEC称新的协议将使得这些散户投资者以及机构投资者包括小的企业或慈善机构等，只要购买了美林的证券，都将在损失上获得弥补。

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Reed's average class size is, to be sure, very small (just below fourteen), reflecting agreement with the educational philosophy implicit in the U.S. News formula.

瑞德学院班级的平均规模很小(14人以下)，这反映了其教育理念与《美国新闻》的排名中暗含的理念正好一致。

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The IMF's resource base was too small to make much of a difference on the world stage, it's resources were only around $100-200bn and the infusion of new funds that is part of the agreement will help.

IMF仅有1000——2000亿美元的资本，资本基础过于薄弱，在世界舞台上发挥的作用非常有限，而作为协议一部分注入的新资金将有所裨益。

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Many small nations wanted a stronger agreement.

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"We are working hard toward an agreement. It is clear we have the major elements of an agreement in place and now we have to do the hard work of conforming the treaty and some other small negotiations,".

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In these new proclamations, Russia and the United States may be stumbling to a way forward, especially when each power recognizes that they are only small concessions away from agreement, and that history supports the Annan view.

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The agreement makes an exception for Small Claims courts.

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The money will likely be small comfort to some, but the agreement itself is important if for no other reason than it helps to bring closure to an ugly period in recent economic history.

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