The idea is that competition among plans will drive down costs.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

So new and a competitive fringe of firms is going to enter and drive prices down.

大批新公司的进入引入了竞争机制,压低了市场价格

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And those plans and commands descend down this spinal cord to drive the muscles in our arm, to guide the arm where we like it to go.

这些计划和指令沿着脊髓而下,驱动我们胳膊的肌肉，指挥我们的胳膊按意志活动。

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He also said employers should not be allowed to exploit illegal immigrants to drive down wages.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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Easing of bank credit made loans cheaper. Recent tax cuts helped drive down car prices.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

June Borders made the hour-long drive down from Las Vegas to lend her support.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

"There are those who believe that the answer is to simply unleash the insurance industry and provide less oversight and fewer rules and that somehow that is going to drive down prices for everybody.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

A major point of difference between the two main parties is whether the government should offer a health insurance program to compete with private insurance companies in an effort to drive down health care costs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04