Now environmentalists will point to the spill as a reminder of the dangers of offshore drilling.

现在环保主义者指出这次溢油事件将是近海石油钻探存在风险的明证。

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In a recent research report, economists from Danske Bank point to the increasing concern of spill-back from problems in Eastern Europe to the Eurozone.

丹麦银行的经济学家在最近的一份报告中指出，人们越来越担心东欧的问题会影响欧元区。

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Like the 1986 NASA disaster, investigations of the BP spill are starting to point toward complex and sophisticated technical systems that failed because of overlooked problems, which, in turn, exacerbated the situation in unanticipated ways.

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The spill stretched eastward from a point about 16 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River to about 94 miles south of Pensacola, Florida.

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