The old slogan of the Thatcher-era ideologues—“Roll back the state”—has been decommissioned as too bracing, but a quiet and inevitably controversial revolution is under way.

撒切尔时代理论家们的老口号，让国家回退，由于太刺耳而被弃之不用，然而，一场静悄悄的难以避免争议的大变革正在暗中涌动。

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Carefully, she pushed him onto his side again, this time bracing herself against his back as she inched the sheet out from under him.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

Mr Colaninno's record suggests that Telecom Italia will be subjected to a more bracing fitness regime than it has been in the past, or than it would have faced under the stewardship of Deutsche Telekom, the white knight solicited by Mr Bernabe.

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