Jobs's unwillingness to accept compromises and the unquestioned authority that lets him issue last-minute edicts have become a key to Apple's success in developing new products.

他表示，乔布斯不愿接受妥协，他有无可争辩的权威在最后一刻拍板定夺，这是苹果公司开发新产品的成功关键。

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These included Fausto Tonna, the long-time finance director who had quit in March 2003, shortly after the company surprised investors by pulling a bond issue at the last minute, and Gianpaolo Zini, Parmalat's legal counsel.

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It was only when the stock market showed its growing concern, by rolling over into corrections each spring, that politicians awakened to reality and in panicked late-night sessions reached last minute agreements on whatever was the worrisome issue at the time.

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