Before you cough up your hard earned cash for the most recent weight loss miracle medication consider the general population's success rate.

在你准备把辛辛苦苦赚来的钱拿去购买那些最新的神奇减肥药物之前，最好先想想人民大众中减肥的成功率吧。

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Many workers don't want to budget for going-away or shower gifts for co-workers and resent being asked to give up their hard-earned cash.

许多员工不想花钱给同事买离别礼物和新婚礼物，也不愿在别人的要求下花自己的血汗钱。

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Instead,my friend was always hard up for cash.

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Christian Bale is the transplanted Massachusetts man and rancher, hard up for cash, who helps transport Wade to a prison train.

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That would, in theory, force many companies to put in huge new contributions to make up for shortfalls--at a time when many are already hard up for cash.

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Elizabeth Demers, a professor at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, points out that what companies lose in terms of hard cash in the early days can often be made up for in terms of the publicity they get when the news media applaud the explosive rise in their share prices.

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