The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

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Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

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Similarly, using Airbnb or a car-hire service for the first time encourages people to try other offerings

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But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.

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A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.

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In Southern California, Loma Linda University School of Medicine is offering specialized training for its resident physicians in lifestyle Medicine—that is a formal specialty in using food to treat disease.

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It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

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Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.

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Texas Tech University is even offering a class called "Improving Your Sleep Habits".

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The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s

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Offering a job to a man is the safer bet.

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the wireless carrier offering the iPhone in the United States, had a more reliable network, said Andrew Yu, mobile devices platform project manager at M.I.T.

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Bates College in Maine and Ball State University in Indiana are among other colleges offering three-year options.

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But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care.

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Well, we're offering an all-inclusive two-week trip to Mexico for only 300 dollars.

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Of course, the conditions of work are very different: The Polytechnic is offering two-year contract which could be renewed, but the language school is only offering a year's contract, and that's a different minus.

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As part of the upgrading of its rail yard, Kasselman, who is an inventor and self-proclaimed "steam visionary", is campaigning for a new steam train that runs without any fire and could run on an existing ten- kilometer line, driving tourists and perhaps

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At the same time, offering repair supports the perceived quality of its products.

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By offering instant discounts worth as much as $100, DeWalt launched a trade-in program to encourage people to bring back tools.

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By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

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For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

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Online grocery shopping has really taken off, with most major supermarkets offering the service.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

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So here's another way in which smartphones might transform the way we live and work: by offering insights into human psychology and behavior and, thus, supporting smarter social science.

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A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

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A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman.

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During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

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He was offering a way for us to change our lives and achieve our dreams.

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That t-shirt is normally sixty dollars, but we are offering a ten percent discount.

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The crowne plaza hotel in copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator.

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By offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, cine argues, these brands have hijacked fashion cycles, shaking an industry long accustomed to seasonal pace.

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Fast-food chains should also stop offering "inducements" such as toys, cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers, Stephenson said.

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Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

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Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.

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