Control should be seen as the means by which business opportunities are maximized and potential losses associated with unwanted events reduced.

控制应该被看作是通过某种手段，包括商业机会最大化和潜在的损失与减少不必要的活动。

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Scabby lesions were mainly formed on potato surface, which brings economic losses because of reduced marketability of table stock, the value of processing, and seed potato tubers.

该病主要危害马铃薯块茎，可在其表面形成痂状病斑，严重影响薯块的品质，使之市场竞争力降低，从而造成经济损失。

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The IMF has reduced its estimate of banks' total losses from the crisis by $500 billion, to $2.3 trillion, two-thirds of which has already been written off.

国际货币基金组织把其对银行在经济危机中遭受的总损失的估计值调低了5000亿美元达到2.3万亿美元，其中三分之二已经勾销。

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Similarly, in Glastonbury, CT, a Whole Foods grocery store kept the coolers running during a power outage with its 200-kW fuel cell made by UTC Power, which dramatically reduced inventory losses resulting from food spoilage.

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Those losses were primarily the result of financing costs, which were reduced during a deleveraging in 2010.

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Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco on Friday told Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the trades "that were risky, the ones that had reduced liquidity at the bank, were actually connected with other operations which had losses we were not informed of".

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