They've never met in any round at the U. S. Open, mainly because Nadal couldn't hold up his end of the bargain. He lost in the semifinals in 2008 and 2009, and earlier in previous years.

他们从没有在美国公开赛的任意一轮碰过面，主要是因为纳达尔从没有支撑到最后，他分别于2008年和2009年止步半决赛以及前些年的头几轮。

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U. S. banking regulators on Friday said they would not require commercial banks to build up more capital to compensate for the lower rating on the Treasury securities they now hold as a cushion.

上周五，美国银行监管机构表示，不会因为债券降级，而要求商业银行建立更多的准备金。

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He is part of a new generation of academic stars who hold forth in cyberspace on their college Web sites and even, without charge, on iTunes u, which went up in May on Apple's iTunes Store.

他属于新一代的学院明星，其滔滔不绝的讲课可在学校网站免费获取。你甚至可以在苹果的ITunes网上商店下载。

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France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.

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It cut interest rates to hold the U.S. stock market up, producing another round of irrational exuberance, and boosting the stock market up into the 1999 bubble.

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If the evidence were to hold up in a review by the U.S. patent office, Berninger s findings could invalidate two out of Verizon s three claims of infringement by Vonage.

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