And in the social networking business, a downward slope can very quickly become a steep slope or even a cliff.

对社交网站来说，斜坡很容易就可以变成陡坡甚至悬崖。

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Walter: in a pyramid scheme. Don't mention the IRS or the federal business system. Your mother is Barbara. Your father is Cliff.

沃尔特：在一次金字塔计划中。更不要提国税局或联邦的业务系统了。你母亲是芭芭拉。你父亲是克里夫。

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Employers added 146,000 jobs, stronger level of hiring than most analysts predicted given Hurricane Sandy and business worries about the fiscal cliff.

雇主们增加了146,000个工作岗位，而这些工作岗位比多数分析师预测的飓风桑迪所造成的后果及担心商业财政悬崖更具竞争力。

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Or, in my example, a small business owner who wants to explain how the fiscal cliff is affecting his business to 500 people who have nothing more exciting to do than listen to him on a weekday afternoon.

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The business lobby has argued that resolving the fiscal cliff would boost consumer and business confidence.

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"Despite uncertainties in Europe and concerns over the U.S. fiscal cliff creating a difficult business environment, we did our best this quarter to achieve strong earnings based on a strategic focus on differentiated and high value-added products as well as our technological competitiveness, " said Robert Yi, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.

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