Duvalier quickly set about consolidating his power over the state and security services, enriching himself and his cronies through bribery and extortion, and building his own personality cult.

杜瓦利埃迅速在国家和安全服务机构中巩固自己的实力，通过贿赂与敲诈勒索为自己和亲信们聚拢财富，并且树立个人崇拜。

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Duvalierquickly set about consolidating his power over the state and securityservices, enriching himself and his cronies through bribery andextortion, and building his own personality cult.

杜瓦利埃迅速在国家和安全服务机构中巩固自己的实力，通过贿赂与敲诈勒索为自己和亲信们聚拢财富，并且树立个人崇拜。

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Private capital has poured into building power stations, but most other bits of the supply chain are in the hands of the state.

私人资金已大量投入修建发电站，但其它大部分电力供应环节都由国家掌控。

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He cites China, where partly state-owned power firms are applying for credits for building gas-fired power plants instead of dirtier ones run on coal.

ECONOMIST: Climate change

Skyscrapers have been the symbol of economic power and wealth since the ceremonial ribbon was cut on the Empire State Building in May 1931.

FORBES: Still Building, China Readies World's Second Tallest Skyscraper

While Americans remain individualistic citizens of a nation-state at the height of its power, Europeans are absorbed in an unprecedented enterprise of union-building.

ECONOMIST: Europe and America