As might be expected, highly decorative or symbolic buildings would normally demand the lowest percentage of structural costs as compared to total construction cost.

正如所希望的，装饰性或者标志性较强的建筑物的结构造价在总体造价中所占的比重相对较低。

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Structural deficits soon re-emerged, but the bond market no longer seemed to care, as long as the global savings glut kept America's borrowing costs low.

结构性赤字马上再现，但只要全球存款能保住美国低廉的借钱成本，债券市场似乎就不必在意巨大的赤字了。

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The basic structural reason for this problem is that information products are characterised by high fixed costs and low marginal costs.

这一问题基本的结构性原因在于，信息产品的特点就是固定成本高，而边际成本低。

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Investing in product development around the world, including China, Ford faced higher commodity and structural costs, while it saw sales increase and it paid off its debt.

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Does it institute nationwide structural changes that curb costs and raise quality?

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

As part of its mid-term strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, Sony identified resource optimization as one of the key initiatives for transforming its electronics business and Sony has since been progressively implementing various structural reform measures to optimize costs, streamline its overall organization, accelerate decision-making processes and establish firm foundations for sustainable future growth.

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