The US will remain the most powerful country in 2020, but the paradox is that the strongest state since Rome will not be able to protect its citizens acting alone.

到2020年美国仍将是最强大的国家，但问题是，自罗马帝国以来，即使是最强大的国家也不能靠单独行动来保护其公民了。

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The state could charge heftily for acting as lender of last resort—or, less desirable, impose a windfall tax on bank profits or a “Tobin tax” on transactions.

国家可以对作为最后贷款人的债主重重地收税，或者，不合意地，对银行盈利征收重税，或在交易过程中课以“托宾税”。

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It was his mother, desperate and at times hysterical with grief, who interpreted his state and believed she was acting in his best interests.

是他那因悲痛而绝望、时常歇斯底里的母亲自己解读他的状态，相信自己所做的一切都是为了他好。

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State Department Acting spokesman Robert Wood said the U.S.team, of "several" nuclear experts, was told to leave the site immediately.

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Last month, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Bisa Williams became the highest-ranking U.S.official to visit Cuba in several years.

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State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood says U.S.officials are in contact with regional allies and other concerned governments to try to "head off" the launch.

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Shortly after, the state board of education approved the measure and the acting state education commissioner appointed five new board members to oversee the district's 20, 000 students.

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The New York Daily News Wednesday, citing sources, said Giuliani officially filed for divorce and was negotiating terms of the split Monday with his estranged wife before Acting State Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische.

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Unlike the numerous recent dispensary raids, which could theoretically result from competing interpretations of state law, this new incursion constitutes a direct threat of arrest against state employees acting in good faith to administer perfectly lawful state programs.

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