If Google's acquisition of Motorola was indeed priced solely on a cost-per-patent basis, as looks likely, it would set a benchmark for valuing an intellectual property portfolio.

如果谷歌收购摩托罗拉的价格真的跟看上去的一样，即建立在每项专利的基础上，那这将成为估算知识产权的一个基准。

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As firms have held on to workers during the economic downswing, they will probably be slow to hire more in an upswing that anyway looks likely to be lethargic.

正如企业在经济下滑是留住工人一样，他们也会在经济上升是缓慢增加雇佣，总之这看上去可能毫无生气。

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It certainly looks as if things have been going pretty well for Chrysler with its sale to Fiat of Italy likely to be approved by a judge in New York on Monday.

当然看起来，克莱斯勒公司出售给意大得菲亚特公司的事情进行的很好，此事在周一纽约的审理已经通过。

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If the test ban is relaxed, as looks likely, Schumacher will be doing as much of it as he can at Mercedes.

BBC: Behind the scenes at the German GP

The cross, erected in 1934, will have to be either dismantled or (as looks likely) taken into the hands of a consortium of private groups.

ECONOMIST: Aztecs 1, Christians 0

If Yukos's remaining assets go the same way (as looks likely), there will be nothing left of the company for the other shareholders who believed in Mr Khodorkovsky's transformation and bought in.

ECONOMIST: The Khodorkovsky case