Perhaps the exit market, which in the first half of this year has raised only $21 billion, compared with $115 billion in the first half of 2008 (according to Dealogic), is past its worst.

根据迪洛基克公司的数据，今年上半年，获利退出市场的资金仅二百一十亿美金，而2008年上半年，这个金额高达一千一百五十亿美金，但也许，最糟糕的情况已经过去了。

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This house is only the first half of the whole planned project. As an opening, she wordlessly waits to meet her other half with her existence, curve and image.

它只是房子的一半，或者说是一个引子，它的存在，流线，形象都期待着与计划中的另一半相遇，是一种无言的等待。

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According to opinion polls, this means there is a good chance that Ms Park could become the first female president of a country where only half of women work and a tenth of politicians are female.

ECONOMIST: South Korean politics