Thanks to this law, we know that a planet relatively close to the sun, like Venus, has a far briefer orbital period than a distant planet, such as Neptune.

正因为了有这条定律，我们才能得知例如金星这样离日相对较近的行星的公转周期要短于离日较远的行星，例如海王星。

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Thanks to federal law since the 1980s, all this material is bound up in a thicket of law, and this thicket will not evaporate for more than one hundred years.

这都要感激1980年代开始的联邦法律，所有的这些作品素材都被绑定在法律的丛林之内，而这些树丛至少一百年都不会消失。

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This is important because, thanks to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, it is now the job of the Treasury secretary to spot financial icebergs.

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And soon after taking office, I proposed a set of reforms to empower consumers and investors, to bring the shadowy deals that caused this crisis into the light of day, and to put a stop to taxpayer bailouts once and for all. (Applause.) Today, thanks to a lot of people in this room, those reforms will become the law of the land.

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Because, thanks to a recent law change, no taxes are paid on 529 plan earnings, this has the effect of turning corporate debt into tax-free debt.

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