However, even the uncertainty could be damaging, some said, because the company's business model involved taking on large amounts of short-term credit from suppliers.

不过，有人表示，即便只是不确定性可能也会造成伤害，因为国美的业务模式涉及从供应商获得大量短期信贷。

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Under one model the insurance pool would function like a reserve fund, offering participants a short-term credit line they could call upon during a crisis.

在一种模式下，保险库可起到储备基金的作用，为参与者提供短期信贷，在危机到来时便可向其求助。

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In 1991 it stopped providing short-term export-credit guarantees, spinning off the business to what is now the privately owned Atradius.

在1991年，它停止提供短期出口信用担保，将该业务剥离给目前私有的Atradius。

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Short term credit markets, paranoid and nervous given recent collective memory of the implosion that was 2008, have already begun to anticipate a possible default.

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Right now, central banks are engaged in a major operation to stave off the Euro sovereign debt crisis by extending global unlimited short term credit to Europe's banking system.

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U.S. money-market funds that provide short-term credit to European banks will suffer major losses (about one third of their bank loans are in Europe.) And the operations of big U.S. companies that hold European bonds, or rely on short-term credit, will screech to a halt.

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