Dropping a buy-back programme can be done on the quiet.A dividend cut is a very public statement of corporate weakness.

取消回购计划可能还会暗箱操作，但是股息的下挫可就公开地昭示了公司业绩的下降。

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Having the children take part is like a ceremonial creation of a family and a public statement that they are all in it together.

有儿童参与就像一个所有人都参与的家庭或公共状态的仪式性的诞生。

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I would hope that in any public statement it feels it must issue, the company will make it clear that the decision to resign as Chairman was mine.

我希望在公司认为必须做出的任何声明中，应清楚写明辞去董事长一职是我本人的决定。

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The player admitted that other gay sportspeople had confided in him since his public statement.

BBC: Gareth Thomas

Still worse: American Chief Executive Peter Bowler never made a public statement or apology.

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There has been no public statement as for how that money has been spent.

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