TWENTY-FIVE years ago this week, the finance ministers of America, Japan, Britain, France and West Germany met at a swanky New York hotel and agreed to push the dollar down.

二十五年前的本周，美国、日本、英国、法国和西德财长齐聚纽约一家豪华酒店，同意推低美元。

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The weakest link in the West will be Britain, which has left it too late to build new nuclear power stations before its existing ones are decommissioned.

英国是西欧能源供应中最脆弱的一环。建造新的以取代使用期将到的核电站为时已晚。

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Funding for the new boathouse has come in part from West Cumbria's development agency Britain's Energy Coast (BEC).

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He hired Mr. Bray, an architect from his Connecticut hometown of New Britain, to handle the design, and Ms. Kirkland from West Simsbury, Conn.

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