A practical example: End of quarter in a public company wreaks havoc on all departments not just sales.

一个实际例子：每到季度末，上市公司所有部门，不仅仅是销售都要忙做一团。

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They pretended to exit their options-trading strategy and shift into Treasuries before the end of each quarter.

他们在每季度结束前假装停止他们的期权交易策略，而转向财政部门。

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Instead of saying something like, "If we set an end-of-quarter deadline, we will never make it," say, "This is just my opinion, but I don't see how we will make that deadline."

与其说“如果我们设定了季度末的最后限期，我们将永远无法完成”这样的话，不如说：“仅代表个人看法，但我不知道我们怎样才能在截止日期前完成。”

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Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

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T-Mobile USA served 33.2 million customers (as defined in Note 1 to the Selected Data, below) at the end of fourth quarter 2011, compared to 33.7 million customers at both the end of third quarter 2011 and the end of fourth quarter 2010.

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Gorilla Glass 3 will go into production at the end of this quarter, and start showing up in devices at the end of the second quarter.

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The most important factor is that the yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond, which ended September at 2.913 versus 4.510 at the end of the first quarter and 4.377 at the end of the second quarter.

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