在某些情况下,面对很少竞争或没有竞争的工业巨头为了避免因被淘汰而造成的资本损失,他们会故意阻碍技术进步。
In some cases, industrial giants faced with little or no competition seek to avoid the capital loss resulting from obsolescence by deliberately obstructing technological progress.
在某些情况下,它们也必须与另一个工业巨头竞争,而它们的武器可能包括在创新方面的大笔支出。
There are instances in which they too must compete with another industrial Goliath, and then their weapons may include large expenditures for innovation.
由于对这些限制感到失望,苏布拉于1981年离职,创建了自己的公司,并在过去20年里致力于帮助人们对抗工业污染巨头。
Frustrated by these restrictions, Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company, and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight back against giant industrial polluters.
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