In fact , there was intermittent evidence of a gender gap before 1980 : it favored the republicans .
事实上,在1980年之前,有间歇性的证据表明女选民更赞成共和党。
Before that , living standards were already being eroded by stagnating wages and tax and economic policies that favored the wealthy .
在此之前,人民的生活已经被停滞不前的工资、税收以及青睐富人的经济政策消磨殆尽。
A different way of breaking down investment to avoid those problems , favored by the world bank and a few other private-sector economists , is by business sector rather than type of ownership .