That's why when public health agencies want to assess the overall health of a given country or state, they always start with average life expectancy.

这也是为什么公众健康机构想评估指定国家或州的整体健康时，他们总是从平均预期寿命开始。

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Its performance shows it: in a national exam administered in 2005 Cidade olimpica's scores in Portuguese and maths were below average for city, state and country.

其表现表明：在2005年的一个全国性的考试中，Cidade olimpica在葡语和数学上的分数低于城市、州和国家的平均水平。

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He notes that the average rainfall during the past five months in the state was only 12 centimeters, the least amount of rain since 1967.

他指出，过去5个月里，德州的平均降雨量只有12厘米，是1967年以来同期降雨的最低值。

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Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.

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Thus, to obtain a reasonable estimate of state-level job impacts, we average the three approaches.

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That puts DSL providers at a particular disadvantage, a Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) executive testified, because state and local telecom taxes are so high--an average of 13.9% of bills across the U.S., compared to an average 6% sales tax on other goods and services.

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