| The consequences of heavy drinking are
well documented: failing health, broken marriages, regrettable late-night phone
calls. But according to Gregory Luzaich’s calculations, there can be a downside
to modest drinking, too—though one that damages the wallet, not the
liver. The Pek Wine Steward prevents wine from spoiling by injecting argon, an inert gas, into the bottle before sealing it airtight with silicon. Mr. Luzaich. a mechanical engineer in Windsor, Calif.—in the Sonoma County wine country—first tallied the costs of his reasonable consumption in October 2001. "I’d like to come home in the evening and have a glass of wine with dinner," he said. "My wife doesn’t drink very much. so the bottle wouldn’t get consumed. And maybe I would forget about it the next day, and I’d check back a day or two later, and the wine would be spoile A. damaging the liver B. costing much C. breaking marriages D. spoiling the wine [简答题]Inflation has several consequences all of which are bad. First, because the real value of money tends to decline, lenders of money, such as banks, are less willing to lend or are willing to do so only at higher interest rates. This makes borrowing more expensive, and thus may cause prices to rise even further, owing to the increased cost of borrowing. Second, there are many groups of people whose incomes are fixed or whose incomes tend to rise slowly and infrequently. In a period of inflation the living standards of these people fall and, as a result, they suffer hardship. Old age pensioners are examples of one of these groups. Third, when people see the value of money being eroded, they are less willing to save. Accordingly, there is less money available for investment in the new equipment which is frequently necessary if productivity is to increase. It may be more difficult, therefore, to absorb increased production costs. Consequently, prices continue to rise.
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The consequences of heavy drinking are well documented: failing health, broken marriages, regrettable late-night phone calls. But according to Gregory Luzaich’s calculations, there can be a downside to modest drinking, too—though one that damages the wallet, not the liver. [单项选择] Watch Consequences of US-Libyan Relations
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on Monday that the United Stated decided to restore full diplomatic ties with Libya and clear the nation from the list of terrorism-supporting countries. The Libyan Government welcomed the decision.
This means that the 25-year-old US-Libyan confrontation comes to an end.
Interpretation of this varies, the sudden announcement of the rapprochement is closely related to the issue of Iran’’s nuclear bidding.
Over a long period of time,. Washington called Libya, together with Iran and others, a " rogue nation" , which allegedly supported terrorism, and was one of the seven countries that could be subject to possible US nuclear strikes.
The situation altered somewhat since the outbreak of the Iraqi War in 2003. The military forces of the United States and its allies toppled the Saddam Hussein regime with the excuse that Iraq went in for weapons of mass destruct
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