In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

为应对这些限制，粮食进口国正试图敲定长期贸易协议，以锁定未来粮食供应。

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The people who make electronics gear fret that if they don't lock up agreements for exclusive music or videos, consumers won't pay top price.

电子设备商着急的是如果他们不锁定独占的音乐或视频合同，消费者就不会花大钱买。

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Companies may end up spending more time negotiating all the possibilities, than making up new proprietary formats, as agreements and pacts will become the new means of customer lock-ins.

公司可能最终会把时间都花在谈判所有可能的格式上，而不是建立新的私有的格式，那么协议和合同将会成为新的霸占顾客(customer lock - ins)的手段。

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Facebook still faces enormous additional supply coming into the market as post-IPO lock-up agreements covering well over 1 billion shares expire in the coming months.

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Prior to the JOBS Act, sell-side analysts were prohibited from publishing research before the IPO, for 40 days after the IPO, and in the 15 days before and after lock-up agreements with pre-IPO stockholders and the company expire.

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And that is after signing a bunch more pre-paid supply chain agreements to lock-up the tablet market even more than they have already.

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