This month Mr. Ahmadinejad refused a direct order from Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to drop a contested cabinet appointment.

当月，内贾德拒绝了伊朗最高精神领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊的直接会面要求，放弃了一个有争议的内阁任命。

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In Raleigh, N.C., he booked himself into a motel close to an IBM facility. After three days of hanging around, he got an appointment and came away with a firm order for connectors.

在北卡罗来纳州，他预定了汽车旅馆以靠近IBM工厂，经过3天的努力，他得到了约见机会，在离开时得到了为一个工厂提供连接器的订单。

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The work order is created when the customer calls to make an appointment.

当顾客打电话预约时创建工作订单。

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Customers must make an appointment in order to view frames, since the area is small, but that worked to my advantage: A friendly salesgirl met me at the elevator when I arrived and tended to me quite cleverly while I tried on several pairs.

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Some may even claim an emergency in order to secure an appointment, when the reality may be somewhat different.

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If the Liaison Committee gets its way, all these would be joint appointments by the Government and Parliament - and having been involved in the appointment, parliamentary approval would be needed in order to sack them.

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