In America, a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population made the native-born 0.05% better off.

在美国，移民在人口中所占比例每增加一个百分点，本土出生的人口生活水平就会提高0.05%。

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"Despite the recession, on average, Britons are financially and materially better off than at any other point in history," he told the conference in Birmingham.

“尽管在衰退，平均而言，英国人无论从财富还是物质上都处于历史上最好的水平，”他在伯明翰的会议上说道。

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The rivalry got the job done in double-quick time and stimulated better and better ways of sequencinggenomes—to the point where a bacterium can now be knocked off in a day or so.

在竞争的带动下，基因测序工作进展的很快，并且激发了更好的测序手段—一个细菌的基因可以在一天左右的时间里被测定。

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But Google users are better off, and that is the key point.

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For the end point, we would be better off measuring the ability of people to sit on the front porch and drink a mint julep.

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The point is that state residents will be much better off if the money goes into a business that is growing.

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