The idea originally came from the Soviet Union where distance learning had run for many years on a large scale.

这个观念起源于苏联，在那里，大规模的远程教育已经开展了好多年。

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The European Union says it wants 10 to 12 commercial-scale CCS plants by 2015.

欧盟宣布，到2015年，它将建立10到12个CCS工厂。

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European Union funding of up to EUR 10 million will support 2 or 3 large-scale pilot projects to demonstrate the benefits of solid-state lighting.

为了证实固态照明的好处，欧盟将提供高达一千万欧元的资金，用以支持2到3个大型试点项目。

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The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.

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No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirements for most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay for quality work would be.

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Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.

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