做大经济“蛋糕”

under way

Localization

awarding ceremony

Sparkling or still? Spring or tap? Imported or domestic? Flavored or plain? There" s nothing simple about a drink of water, now that the bottled stuff outsells both milk and beer in the United States. In just a couple of decades, we" ve become a nation awash in bottled water—with tens of billions of plastic empties to prove it—transforming the Drinking Fountain on a city street into a dated curiosity akin to the public telephone booth. How one of life" s basic necessities became a heavily marketed beverage in a plastic bottle is the subject of Elizabeth Royte" s new book Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. Royte, an environmental journalist based in Brooklyn, N. Y. , shares the many, sometimes bizarre, unintended consequences of cracking open that plastic seal.

translatability

十七届三中全会

机器制造产品

体裁

价值取向

Lucy is impatient of open questions and irritated at her inability to answer them.

Chancellor George Osborne will today unveil details of ￡ 154m of funding to help tackle tax evasion and avoidance by big-name global companies and wealthy individuals.

law of diminishing marginal returns

cover story

Kurds

defense lawyer

ASEAN

The huge earthquake that hit off the coast of northeastern Miyagi prefecture earlier this year was a harsh reminder of the more elemental dangers that can threaten economic activity on the crowded and seismically vulnerable Japanese archipelago. Weighing the full implications of the natural disaster will take time. Yet the earthquake at the very least throws a huge question mark over an economic recovery that economists had hoped would gather steam in 2011 after stalling in the last three months of 2010. Although the areas worst hit are far less economically significant than the coastal industry zones, which suffered widespread stoppages after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the disaster could heighten recent uncertainty among consumers and investors about the prospects for Japan" s continued recovery from its worst postwar recession.Learning from the lessons of the devastating disaster in 1995, the government and insurance companies have been actively encouraging even smaller companies to draw up detailed " business continuity plans" intended to minimize losses and aid quick recoveries. In the longer term, the earthquake is certain to force heavy spending on construction and public works in the affected region. The terrifying footage of tsunami carrying away whole buildings makes it clear that dealing with the damage will require huge effort and heavy investment.

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