Managers delay new products, leave factories unbuilt, pull the plug on loss-making divisions, and cut costs and jobs.

公司经理们会延迟推出新产品，停止新建工厂，撤掉持续亏损的分公司，削减开支，裁员。

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In December GM had said it would cut the number of plants from 47 in 2008 to 38 by 2012, but has now added another five factories facing the axe, which would leave it with 33 facilities.

去年12月GM曾说它计划把它的工厂从2008已有47家到2012年砍至38家，但现在它又准备多削减5家，这使得它只保留33家工厂。

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They think that working overtime can help them get a free dinner while they get some more money. If they leave their factories early, they don't know what to do in their hired rooms.

他们认为加班能得到免费的晚饭，同时也能赚更多钱。

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Every year, millions of China's 250 million migrant workers leave their factories and travel across the country to visit their families at home.

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When farmers leave the land to work in factories, call centres or almost anywhere else, their incomes and consumption almost always go up, lifting assorted development indicators.

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By comparison, most of the five million workers employed in Bangladesh's thriving garment export industry have had to leave their rural homes to work in the factories.

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