In lots of corporate environments, especially large ones, it's easy to see how people at the bottom can think people at the top rule by edict.

在许多公司环境(尤其是大公司)中，很容易看到底层下属如何看待高层管理人员通过规章制度进行的管理。

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Swedish health officials tried and failed to cut queues by increasing direct funding for hospitals and even issued an edict requiring hospitals to cut queues for elective operations to three months.

瑞典健康部门的官员尝试通过增加对于医院的直接资助，甚至发布法令要求医院将选择性手术的等待队伍缩短到三个月，但是都失败了。

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Some US soldiers privately grumble about the cutbacks, but others said they were not bothered by the new edict.

一些美军士兵私下里抱怨这一削减举措，但其他人则觉得没什么。

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So, if we want to get more magnesium into the marketplace at an affordable price, not by government edict, what do we have to do?

所以如果我们想把更多的镁,投诸市场，并让它保持在一个不太昂贵的价格，而且不靠政府法令，我们应该怎样做？

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Fixing the exchange rate between the dollar and euro by bureaucratic edict would be a huge mistake, like anchoring two sinking aircraft carriers together hoping the buoyancy of the two is greater than the sum of the individual compartments.

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