But the bosses of those outfits share a fear: that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will end up owning British Sky Broadcasting, a satellite TV firm that it already controls.

但是这些公司的老板都害怕同一点，那就是鲁伯特·默多克的新闻集团会获得对英国天空广播公司的拥有权，虽然这家卫星电视公司已在其控制之下。

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On MARCH 3rd Jeremy Hunt, Britain's culture secretary, effectively cleared the way for New York-based News Corporation to take full ownership of BSkyB, a British broadcaster.

3月3日，英国文化大臣杰里米·亨特切实有效地为美国新闻集团全资收购英国天空广播公司铺平了道路。

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A key question is why news International, the British newspaper arm of news Corporation, took so long to acknowledge widespread wrongdoing at the news of the World.

一个关键问题是，为何英国新闻集团旗下的报社新闻国际(News International)花费这般长久的时间才得知《世界新闻报》的错误行径。

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Italy is famous for food as well as luxury: in January Princes, a British subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, said it would buy 51% of a giant tomato-processing business in southern Italy.

ECONOMIST: Chinese and other buyers snap up Italian brands

In 1944, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

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In the days of advance corporation tax, a British subsidiary paying dividends to a British parent could escape that tax, but not if the parent was foreign.

ECONOMIST: Company taxation