1. Rolling ahead with a team that's .500 through November isn't at all tanking — this is seriously a potential playoff team — but it's the same type of conversation the rebuilding squads are having. Leverage assets and playing time to win more now, or stay focused on sustainability?

2. n. 人口 ，(全体)居民，人数

3. 2. Tell all your friends not to give birth or wed or die or whatever during the World Cup coz we won’t go.

4. An oversight model drawing on random inspections by randomly selected law enforcement officers or inspectors and requiring the prompt release of results

5. Vietnamese press claim chicken, sturgeon, fruit and vegetables from China have been undercutting local market prices. While illegal out-of-date produce is creating a black market in China.

6. criminal

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1. Mr Mallaby’s 800-page book was published in October by Bloomsbury and Penguin Press, and was hailed as “exceptional” in an FT review. It came up against strong competition from five other shortlisted books tackling the world’s critical economic and management challenges — from the US productivity gap to persistent gender imbalances.

2. 经济大萧条在全美各地产生了破坏性的影响，然而很少有地区像亚利桑那州那样遭受重创。20世纪初，该州借助强大的旅游业和房地产市场蓬勃发展。住房中位数价格在2003年到2006年间上涨了70%——仅次于内华达州的增幅——带动了更多的房屋和建筑行业工作岗位。直到2007年接近年底的时候，亚利桑那州的月失业率都一直维持在3.5%的低水平。但是随后经济陷入低谷。住房价格从相比高点惨遭腰斩，亚利桑那州6%的房产在2009年收到了止赎通知。在2009年和2010年的大部分时间里，该州的失业率保持在两位数居高不下，从最近五年的失业率情况看，恶劣程度仅次于内华达州。2008年以来，该州的家庭收入以全美最快的速度下降。

3. US News also offers subject-focused rankings, which include popular fields such as computer science, economics and business and engineering.

4. “现在关注‘星二代’、‘富二代’的比较多，但是‘农民工二代’更需要人们关注。”

5. Market watchers were forced to digest the reality of negative 2.9% GDP for the first quarter of the year. All of a sudden, everyone’s forecasts seemed too rosy—or at least too smooth—compared to the lumpy reality. This led to a raft of second-guessing on the timing of the Fed’s eventual exit from its bond-buying stimulus program. We went from confidence to WTF? in a space of a few weeks, with all the asset class rotations and market corrections that come along with a fresh bout of uncertainty.

6. But what about the tens of thousands of Irish fans? They're out of control.

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1. In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.

2. Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, a proponent of a “feminist foreign policy,” opened up to Ellen Barry about her abuse at the hands of an old boyfriend when she was a young woman, something she had never said publicly before.

3. 国内生产总值增长6.5%左右，在实际工作中争取更好结果；