Never before had consumers been able to listen to music as they walked down the street, without balancing a tape player on their shoulder.

在此之前，消费者想要在街上欣赏音乐，非得在肩上背一个磁带播放机不可。

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"It was a complete balancing act," "Sometimes I had to prioritize family over schoolwork without falling behind, but I somehow did it,"

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The chancellor probably realises that he cannot keep whacking up petrol tax without balancing it with other measures.

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But as is often the case, letting fear alone of the worst without balancing the benefits is not best way of making a qualitative long term decision.

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On top of which we have scores of media attention on a handful of cases that are exceptional eliciting such strong convictions without balancing the knowledge that these are exceptional cases.

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