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1. Clinton has strongly defended those practices and blamed excesses on the money-gobbling U.S. political system, which he says is “out of whack”.
克林顿为那些实践强烈争辩，把它们归咎于花费巨额款项的政治体系，他认为这是“有问题”的。
2. 标题Clinton Shows Weakness Among His Own Generation
克林顿在同龄人中显出劣势
3. So far, 51 trade complaints have been lodged with WTO. That’s almost one-third the number of disputes handled by the WTO’s predecessor, The General Agreement on Tariff and Trade in its half century of existence.
目前已经向世界贸易组织提出有51项贸易抗议。几乎三分之一的争议都是由世界贸易组织的前身，历史长达半个世纪的关税及贸易总协定来解决的。
4. At the other extreme will be specialists that survive by doing one thing either very cheaply or exceptionally well.
By offering lower prices or better services, specialists will discipline the financial supermarkets.
那些靠做事廉价或者特别而生的专家们是另外一个极端。通过低价销售或者提供更好的服务，这些专家们会控制金融市场。
5. West Germany ‘s Volkswagen and other manufacturers are well entrenched and have been able to get protective barriers against possible Japanese competition.
西德的大众汽车和其他制造业获得了贸易保护主义的屏障，牢牢巩固自己的地位，以抵抗日本可能的竞争。
6. The Gen. Eric Shinseke is depicted as a by-the-book and overly cautious officer during his tour in Bosnia.
艾里克将军在波斯尼亚期间被形容成一位教条并过于谨慎的军官。
7. The primary currency of the SALT negotiations became limit on the number of launchers, not limits on missiles or their characteristics.
战略武器限制谈判的主要部分变成了限制发射装置的数量而不是限制导弹和导弹的特性。
8. Allied jets were able to destroy “few, if any, mobile launchers” of scud missiles fired by Iraq at Saudi Arabia and Israel during the conflict.
盟国喷射式飞机可以摧毁矛盾期间伊朗向沙特阿拉伯和以色列地区发射的“几个移动发射装置，如果有的话”。
9. The most savvy companies realize that it will help them to discover new customers, writing more revenue out of existing ones, and lower financing costs.
最精明的公司明白这会帮助他们发掘新的顾客，在已有的收入上增加新的收入并减少财务支出。
10. So big is the capital-spending boom that Japanese Companies’ outlays in Japan topped American Companies domestic outlay by $521.4 billion to $494.8 billion in the months ended March 13 even through Japan total output of goods and services is less than two-third America’s.
日本公司开支的资本投资激增非常巨大。尽管日本总货物产量及服务比美国少了三分之二。到3月13日为止，相比于美国公司国内开支的4948亿元来说，日本的开支为5215亿元。
