There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S. forces and their dependents in Japan.

除了华盛顿与东京之间协定的关于驻日美军及其家属的相关条款外，对于为何延迟将嫌疑人移交给警方，尚未给出明确的解释。

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New safety rules issued by Washington after the accident drove the cost of reactors up and up, and no new plants were ordered for 30 years.

事故后华盛顿颁布的新安全条例迫使反应堆成本一升再升，此后30年再无新的(核电)工厂出现。

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But how will Washington shape regional rules when China has emerged as the ascendant power?

然而，在中国崛起成为一支新兴强国之际，美国将如何影响区域规则？

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"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

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More Washington rules and regulations are not the answer.

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The tapes also originally aimed to prove that interrogators were following new rules Washington had laid out.

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Such a Medicaid fee typically would need authorization from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, and federal rules could prevent Arizona from enacting it.

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