In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.

在她目前的职位上，她突破了那道升迁的无形障碍，成为公司里第一位升至高级管理层的女性。

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With time fast running out, Congress may have left it too late to meet the Tuesday deadline set by the Treasury for raising the debt ceiling above its current $14.3tn limit.

时间正一分一秒地过去，国会可能没有足够的时间在财政部确定的提高上限的最后期限——星期二完成投票，把债务上限从现在14.3万亿再次提高。

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"Our current outlook is for a Republican gain of at least 35 seats in the House, but it is hard to put a ceiling on it," said Wasserman.

我们目前的展望是，共和党人在众议院至少增加35个议席，但是很难说共和党最多能增加多少议席。

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It is my contention that the market has essentially priced in the belief that an agreement on raising the current debt ceiling will happen.

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The current debt ceiling negotiations will accomplish nothing.

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Even with current debt ceiling negotiations and some market participants fearing it will bring the tax exempt status back on the chopping block, it remains highly unlikely that anything will change, given the dire straits some localities and states are in, the impact to public services and the dent it would make to the Federal deficit.

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