After several months of work, Apple held an off-site for all the engineering groups working on OS X to gather a status report.

工作进展了几个月后，苹果公司召开了一个全体OS X工程师组的异地会议，汇总状态报告。

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The participants are deemed to be working for a civil-engineering firm, and are sent off to the proposed site of a new bridge to settle a dispute with local residents and officials.

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