American people and people all over the world will all pay, more or less, sooner or later, the cost for the crisis.

美国人和世界各国人民早晚都会因为这场金融危机而付出或多或少的代价。

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In fact, the sooner cities moved to limit public gatherings or isolate patients, the less severe their experience tended to be -- as much as an eight- or ninefold difference in case and death rates, he says.

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The sooner this happens, the less likely the possibility of civil strife or of intervention in Syria.

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Experts say Tehran may flight-test an ICBM that could reach American shores in just three years or less, with enough enriched uranium for a warhead even sooner.

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