Most of the families have sold up or stepped back from day-to-day management. At first some gave way to big characters who treated their businesses as fiefs.

大多数家族都出售了媒体业务或者逐步退出公司的日常运营，起初这给一些视媒体业为传统领地的“大人物”让出了一些空间，但现在这一行却是职业管理人的天下。

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Her brothers and sisters all got fiefs.

姊妹弟兄皆列土。

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You collect taxes from all fiefs by visiting just one.

只去一个领地就可以收到所有领地的税收。

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Little wonder many reckon California's Republicans are doomed to permanent irrelevance outside their inland fiefs.

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Century is a loose confederation of fiefs, each with its own financial system and pay structure.

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Those with cacique leanings who are trying to maintain their own fiefs will be especially recalcitrant.

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