Over the past few months, it has been working hard, with the help of media consultants, to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.

在过去的几个月里，在媒体顾问的帮助下，它一直在努力工作，以淡化其轻松愉快的印象，打造更学术化、更严肃的形象。

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Given all this, BASF has for some time been pressing hard to reduce its dependence on commodity chemicals.

考虑到这一切，一个时期以来巴斯夫一直在努力减少对通用化学品的依赖。

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Ireland has tried hard to fix its problems. Public-sector wages have been slashed and new taxes raised.

爱尔兰已经在尽力解决它的种种问题，削减了公共部门工资，征收了新的税种。

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And the economy has been hit hard by the fall in the price of diamonds which make up one-third of its gross domestic product.

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Baillie was unsure if he would pursue the matter but does feel his club and its followers have been hard done by.

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The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.

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The most likely outcome is that Western Digital will be forced to sell a badly needed potential production plant at a time when its Thailand operations have been hard hit by the Fall Thailand floods.

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