联邦地

Some history: After her daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver, Candy Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving and successfully lobbied for the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act (the law that's up for reauthorization in 2009), which gave full federal highway funds only to states that set the minimum age to purchase or consume alcohol at 21 years.

看看历史：肯迪·莱特娜的女儿被一个喝醉的司机撞死之后，她成立了&母亲们的反酒后驾车&组织，并成功地说服议员们通过了1984国家最小饮酒年龄法案（这部法案将在2009年重新修订），法案称将把全部的联邦道路基金只给予那些规定最小的买酒或饮酒年龄为21岁的州。

To the contrary, the recent massive swing in the federal government's fiscal balance -- from surpluses of nearly 2% of GDP in 2000 to an estimated 1.5% deficit this year -- underscores the price that may eventually have to be paid in order to reliquefy the American consumer.

两年来，美国联邦征服的财政余额起伏剧烈----2000年的盈余几乎达GDP的2%，而今年的财政赤字却将为GDP的1.5%，这明确无误地表明，要得到任何东西，最终都必须有人付出代价，美国消费者多年以来的过度消费也不例外。

The extent and limitation of the powers of the General Government in relation to this transcendently important interest will be settled and acknowledged to the common satisfaction of all, and every speculative scruple will be solved by a practical public blessing.

联邦政府在这一无比重要的事务上具有的权利范围和限度，将会得到让所有人一致满意地解决和认可；种种抽象的顾虑都会因为实际的公共福祉而消失。

The stakes are high: if borrowing constraints are set too low, already-battered investment banks could be condemned to years of middling to poor profits.But if loose leverage hurdles allow a devil-may-care attitude to risk to flourish yet again, Wall Street is in danger of planting the seeds of its destruction.

事实上，包括美国财长汉克·保尔森和纽约联邦储备银行行长蒂姆·盖特纳在内的政策制定者，一直在不厌其烦地敦促各银行摆脱风险资产，筹集资本，减少资产负债表的杠杆。

This lecture explores the rise of anti-environmentalism in the western revolt against federal control of public lands and its spill over to environmental policy in the rest of the country.

本堂课探讨因西方对联邦控制公有地的反抗情绪而兴起的反环境主义，随后在漫延到国家其他区域的环境政策。

As the disastrous storm gathers even more strength and begins to ravage the rest of the world, FEMA's newly appointed director, Judith Carr, has her hands full preparing for a cataclysmic storm in the US Aiding weather forecasters is storm chaser Tommy Tornado, convalesced from his near-death experience in the Category 6 storms and ready for more, and Faith Clavell, a beautiful, discredited scientist who teams up with Tommy on the ground to figure out what is making the storms so severe.

的灾难性风暴的力量更集中，并开始肆虐世界其他地方，联邦紧急事务管理局新任主任朱卡尔，她的双手已充分准备灾难性风暴在美国的协助气象预报是风暴追汤米旋风， convalesced从他的濒死经验的6类风暴和准备更多，与信仰Clavell ，一个美丽的，谁扫地科学家小组与汤米在地面上找出是什么使风暴如此严重。

"This debunks the myth of America as the land of opportunity, but it doesn't tell us what to do to fix it," said Bhashkar Mazumder, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland who has researched this field.

美国克里福兰联邦储备银行的资深经济学家Bhashkar Mazumder研究了这个领域的问题后，认为这个研究揭穿了美国是&机遇之地&谬论，但并没有告诉我们该如何修正这种状况。

He has already pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges and has been suspended indefinitely from the National Football League.

之前，他已经在联邦法庭认罪参与斗狗事件，被国家足球联盟无限期地暂停了比赛。

A kind of collaborative simulation management method using client/server structure was proposed for complex product design in order to overcome a deficiency of transparency of HLA, which could manage federates effectively and simultaneously.

针对HLA在透明性方面的不足，提出了一种采用客户端服务器模式的协同仿真运行管理方法，能够有效地实现同时对多个仿真联邦的管理，并提出了基于该管理方法的协同仿真管理系统的体系结构，最后介绍了原型系统的实现。

Or rather, it will be crippled by inadequate capital unless the federal government hugely overpays for the assets it buys, giving financial firms — and their stockholders and executives — a giant windfall at taxpayer expense.

更确切地说，金融机构将受困于资本金不足，除非联邦政府以极高的溢价购买那些资产——以纳税人的损失带给金融机构及其股东和管理层一笔横财。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。