根据经济合作与开发组织(OECD)的研究，自二十世纪七十年代晚期以来，十个最巩固的国家(英国也名列其中)平均削减赤字的速度大约是GDP的1.9%。

In the ten biggest consolidations since the late 1970s (and Britain's would rank among them), the average pace of deficit-cutting was 1.9% of GDP a year, according to a study by the OECD.

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二十世纪七十年代晚期，电视观众看高尔夫比看保龄球还少，电视网纷纷开始削减转播场次和转播费。

In the late 1970s, when fewer people watched golf on television than bowling, the networks began reducing both the number of events they showed and the fee they paid to show them.

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这个名词是在二十世纪七十年代晚期开始使用的，并到1999年得到了广泛的传播，也就是在这个时候波维先生造访了麦当劳。

The word was introduced in the late 1970s and had gained widespread currency by 1999, the time of Mr Bove's visit to McDonald's.

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