Not surprisingly, many prominent recent failures have been firms reliant on the American consumer, such as Eddie Bauer, a clothing retailer, and Six Flags, a theme-park operator.

毫不意外，很多近期破产的都是严重依赖美国消费者的著名公司，如服装零售商埃迪·鲍尔(Eddie Bauer)，主题公园六旗游乐园(Six Flags)。

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Another that he created for Eddie Bauer includes dried Douglas fir needles to give a campfire taste.

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Eddie Bauer, a clothing retailer, used to pay people mainly by the kind of job they did, not by how they did it.

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