"Nowadays smoking is considered evil, and we want to provide an oasis for smokers," said a board director of the 'Cafe Tobacco' shop operator Towa Food Service co.

经营这家“烟草咖啡馆”的东和食品服务公司一位董事说：“今时今日，抽烟已被视为罪恶，我们希望为抽烟者提供一片绿洲。”

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The subway's operator, Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd, was investigating and had promised "severe punishment" if employees were found to have misused the video, the paper said.

报纸称，地铁的运营商上海地铁运营有限公司正对此事展开调查，并承诺如果发现公司员工滥用录像则会采取“严厉惩罚”。

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Busch Entertainment Corp. is the second largest theme park operator in the United States with 25 million annual visitors, again second only to the Walt Disney co.

而Busch娱乐集团是美国第二大的主题公园运营商，每年接待游客2500万人次，仅次于迪士尼公司。

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Ford is working on hybrid vehicles with Toyota, once a lone wolf but now a keen co-operator.

ECONOMIST: Carmaking alliances

The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.

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Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.

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