We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance joint weapons whose costs always overrun hugely.
我们应该制止纳税人设法资助费用总是大大超支的联合武器开发的这种胡闹。
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Japan's prickly relations with Russia did not stop Toshiba agreeing on joint reactor-construction and fuel-production efforts with state-owned Atomenergoprom.
Both pure drug therapy and X-ray radiotherapy combined with drug therapy can not stop the progress of hip joint involvement but X-ray radiotherapy combined with drug therapy can postpone it.