They are so used to getting stuff from the supply sergeant that the clerk had to throw the suits on the floor before these guys would try them on.

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The goal was to stop stuff like this, to try to create a legal framework in which states could resolve their kind of differences without kind of butchering each other.

他这么做的目的就是为了终结这种战乱的状况,并且试图创建一个法律体系,各国可以通过这个体系,而不是相互残杀来解决分歧

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So, investors will have a tendency to try to hide -or people who sell investments will try to channel the good investments to their friends and dump the bad stuff on other people.

所以,投资者倾向于掩盖,或者说是投资产品的销售者会试图,把好的投资产品卖给自己的朋友,而把那些差的留给外人

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The salespeople earn a flat commission, so they have no incentive to try to stuff a customer who can only afford a four-year-old Hyundai into a one-year-old BMW. Their desks are designed so that they and their customers are on the same side of the computer screen.

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He's going to try to do all the grassroots stuff that everybody else is doing.

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And so that is one of the reasons why it was so important to look at General Motors and say, this company really matters, and if its stakeholders are prepared to do the tough stuff, then it is a good investment to try to help them.

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