The changes were needed for the shuttle to leave the station before the arrival of a Russian Soyuz rocket, which is set to launch on March 26.

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They typically--they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.

他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩,或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话,有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。

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re so hated in many parts of the world that any policy initiative with our name on it is dead on arrival.

世界上有很多人憎恨我们，We’,任何起草的政策，只要有我们的名字在上面,都必死无疑。

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