"And basically it is to take a brief freeze frame on individual cases to see if we can really break them down and have face to face communications between those representing consumers or homeowners with lender attorneys to see if deals can be struck."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

or the trains break down or there are power failures,

或者火车出故障了，或者电力不足了，

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