The biggest reforms to emerge from the current crisis will be global changes in the ways companies are held accountable for the huge, hidden costs now foisted on the public.

在目前的这场危机中，在全球范围内出现的最大变化是，本应由公司负责的那些庞大的隐形成本，都强加到了公众身上。

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They also help the companies to improve their public reputations at a time when business is widely held to be responsible for the downturn.

在人们普遍认为商业应该为经济低迷负责的时候，这些措施还帮助企业改善了公共关系。

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This is mostly done with public company Numbers since getting detailed financials on privately held companies is difficult.

基本上是比上市公司的数据，因为私人公司的详细财务信息很难拿到。

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Mattera, 50, and several other individuals solicited customers for their newly-minted hedge fund, The Praetorian Global Fund, representing that the fund and affiliated Praetorian entities owned shares worth tens of millions of dollars in privately-held companies that were expected to go public.

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This was presumably going on behind the scenes even while the two companies held hands in public for the sake of the Xbox 360 and the first-gen peripheral.

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The team, which looked at several thousand venture-capital-backed companies from 1986 to 2003, said that stat held up whether you defined success as going public, filing to go public, as being acquired or going through a merger.

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