当地雇主包括芯片制造商英特尔，两家电信公司摩托罗拉与阿尔卡特·朗讯。
Local employers include Intel, a chipmaker, and Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent, two telecoms firms.
本来，合并是想让阿尔卡特朗讯更具竞争力。但是，尽管已经从88000名员工中裁员了16500，公司还是难以实现成本的节省。
The merger was supposed to make Alcatel-Lucent more competitive, but cost savings have been hard to realise, despite 16, 500 job losses from a workforce of 88, 000.
自从两年前阿尔卡特和朗讯公司合并之后，这家合并的公司最费劲的一件事就是平衡法国和美国两方的利益。
AFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to worry about was balancing the interests of its French and American parts.
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