The damages are designed to compensate victims for their direct losses.

该赔偿金是用来补偿受害人的直接损失的。

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Significant opportunity costs include: litigation damages, loss of proprietary data, consumer confidence, loss of direct revenue, reconstruction of data, and reconstruction of services.

重要的机会成本主要包括：诉讼的赔偿金，私人数据的丢失，消费者的信心，直接收入的丢失，重建数据，重建服务。

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Direct economic losses from the earthquake will be about RMB67b in Sichuan, arising from the damages to 14207 businesses in the province.

据初步统计，四川全省14207家工业企业因地震受灾，直接经济损失670亿元。

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But the Justice Department is bringing the case under the Medical Care Recovery Act, which provides for direct recovery of damages against any third party that can be shown to have caused Medicare costs to increase.

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Entrant waives the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages.

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Since Delaware law indemnifies company officers from paying most civil damages, they are rarely exposed to the direct cost of shareholder litigation anyway.

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