One reason is that Americans view business as being more firmly based on the ideal of competition than other institutions in society.

原因之一是美国人认为商业是以竞争的理想为基础的，它的立场比社会其他机构要坚定。

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One result, for example, will be that lenders demand more data on customers, leading borrowers to concentrate more of their business on particular institutions.

比如说，一个结果就是贷方对顾客的资料要求更多，这样就到导致借方将其业务更集中在特定的机构中。

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Japan, the world's second largest economy, lagged behind, ranked third in Asia and ninth globally, faring poorly on measures of its institutions and market and business sophistication.

由于在制度与市场和商业复杂度方面表现糟糕，全球第二大经济体日本排名落后在了后面：在亚洲排名第三，全球排名第九。

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But combined with a brutal and devastating recession, these forces have also shaken the faith of the American people -- in the institutions of business and government.

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Based on fair-value accounting rules, Goldman forced lower fire-sale marks on the industry which put some financial institutions out of business almost overnight.

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This threatens to force many religiously affiliated charitable institutions out of the business of providing education, health care and social services to the poor.

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