The counter-argument, that cuts remove an important discipline on managers, hardly holdstrue today, when all firms are counting the pennies.

当每家公司都在精打细算的时候，那些反对者认为是给公司经理除去紧箍咒的说法是站不住脚的。

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You may think little of the pennies and nickels you save by practicing fuel-efficient driving, but you may save just enough to skip a few trips to the gas pump every month.

你可能不在乎以省油驾驶方法省下的几个钱，但你省下的足以使你每月少加几次油。

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You remember: thousands of two pence coins lie on a moving shelf, and you have to drop in coins of your own in the hope it will cause the pennies to tumble down for you to collect.

你还记得：在一个移动带上有数千个2便士硬币摞成摞，你必须投掷自己的硬币，并希望它会导致那些成摞的硬币被击倒，这样你就能悉数归拢这些硬币了。

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One man appreciates cheap domestic gasoline, sold at pennies per liter, but adds "on the other hand, if the price of gasoline were higher, maybe there would be more funds for roads and other projects."

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Usually this happens between men and women, so a man will give Richard a drink and pay him a few pennies to go to a woman in the bar and repeat certain things that he has trained Richard to say.

通常是某个男的，给钱让他给某个女人,带教授的话,顾客们会因为。

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They will win five dollars minus the difference in pennies."

奖金是五美元减去所选值与答案之差

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He said there was no evidence minimum pricing worked because "alcoholics are not sensitive about the pennies".

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The counter-argument, that cuts remove an important discipline on managers, hardly holds true today, when all firms are counting the pennies.

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Some California towns resorted to one-penny scrip during the mid-1970s, when a severe copper shortage sucked all the pennies out of circulation.

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