After more than a year of resisting preparations for a possible budget sequestration in 2013-certain Congress would never allow such a destructive hit on the nation's military-then-Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in January reluctantly ordered the services to hunker down and hoard cash. The move was intended to blunt-however minimally-the effects of what he called a "perfect storm of budget uncertainty."
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机译：经过一年多的抗拒准备好在2013年进行可能的预算封存的准备后，某些国会决不会对美国军方时任国防部长莱昂·E·帕内塔（Leon E. Panetta）造成如此破坏性的打击，他在一月份不情愿地下令该部门缩减并ho积现金。此举旨在平息他所谓的“预算不确定性的完美风暴”的影响。
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