"The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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A guy named Seth Klarman, who works at a fund in Boston called Baupost, said that what he does is worries top-down and invests bottom-up.

他叫塞斯·克拉曼,在波士顿的Baupost基金工作,他说他的工作就是自上而下地担心,自下而上地投资

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