1. It’s been one of the worst years for investment decision-making on record, almost across the board. No strategy worked consistently, save for the type of shareholder activism that only a handful of Wall Street’s billionaire titans are able to engage in.

2. Yet institutions matter, too, because they set the rules of the game.

3. 工业部和信息技术部的数据显示，上月新能源汽车的产量为1.61万台，比去年同期大幅上涨了144%。全电动乘用车的产量达到7952台，是去年同期的三倍。政府数据显示，一月份生产的新能源汽车，97%都有资格享受税收优惠政策。

4. Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf said Yao represented a new wave of wealthy Chinese, those whose money came from playing the financial markets as opposed to more traditional routes like trade or manufacturing.

5. 1."The Little Kicks" in Seinfeld Almost Didn't Happen

6. 尽管郭晶晶没有宣布自己的退役时间，但在12月份的东亚运动会上，她发表的关于有可能休战一年的声明，却又向人们透露着讯息。种种迹象表明，她与霍启刚的感情已经迈入一个新阶段。除非他们俩对中国农历里所讲的2010年是“寡妇年”这一说法深信不疑，不然我们很有能看到郭小姐变成霍太太。

应用

1. 在7月31日的分析师电话会议上，特斯拉的董事长兼CEO埃隆o穆斯克亲手给“特斯拉热”又添了一把柴。这次会议上爆出的“大新闻”并不是特斯拉第二季度产量再次提升并超过了收益预期。

2. The survey discusses projections for going forward: "The cost of living is always changing and there are already indications of further changes that are set to take place during the coming year."

3. 3.1 用改革的办法深入推进“三去一降一补”。

4. 'I think South Korea has a very rigorous and narrow definition of beauty because we’re an ethnically homogenous society and everyone looks pretty much the same. It is also related to low self-esteem.

5. Apple CEO Steve Jobs poses with the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California in this June 7, 2010

6. 不过，在长达四小时的马拉松般的颁奖典礼中，《月光男孩》所获奖项一度与《爱乐之城》并驾齐驱。巴里?詹金斯（Barry Jenkins，文首图中）和塔雷尔?阿尔文?麦克拉尼（Tarell Alvin McCraney，文首图右）获得了最佳改编剧本奖。马赫沙拉?阿里(Mahershala Ali)获得最佳男配角奖，这是美国穆斯林男演员首位获得奥斯卡奖。

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1. 8.Form or Join a Study Group

2. Americans: While you're here, why not pretend to be Canadian? Very few Britons can tell the difference, and it will allow you to rescue yourself from awkward conversations about the death penalty.

3. 11月份，由于大中城市实施了一波限购措施，中国全国城市新建住宅价格加速上涨的趋势失去了更多动力，尽管价格同比涨幅仍轻松维持在两位数的水平。