Firm Numbers are hard to come by; as European Union (EU) citizens, the French can move to Britain without registering with any authority.

作为欧盟居民的法国人可以没有任何官方登记即可搬到英国去，所以明确的数目很难得到。

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But apparently the firm has not been trying very hard.

不过很明显，这家公司并没有付出多大的努力。

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It is hard to see how taking the firm private will change that.

现在很难看出私有化公司如何能改变这一局面。

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Going into the summit they had pushed hard for firm numerical limits on bonuses as a proportion of revenues or capital.

ECONOMIST: A new chapter for the world economy, maybe

Its admission of guilt could make it hard for the firm to fight off private lawsuits from those that bought its now-vilified tax shelters.

ECONOMIST: Auditing

Onerous labour laws are partly to blame, because they make it hard for a firm to sack workers unless it is about to go under.

ECONOMIST: Corporate Japan goes to waste