Current economic activity is markedly slower than during the go-go years of the mid to late 1980s.
目前的经济明显地比蓬勃发展的1980年代中晚期来得缓慢。
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In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.
近年来，许多中型城市开始采取中间路线，将大城市的兴奋和机遇与小城市午夜后的宁静结合起来。
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The researchers found that the electrical efficiency of computing has doubled every 1.6 years since the mid-1940s.