This was an important business before the days of tractors when many families made a living from farming, and mules were used as work animals.

在拖拉机出现之前，这是一项重要的业务。当时，许多家庭以务农为生，骡子被用作役畜。

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He had made it his business to surround himself with a hand-picked group of bright young officers.

他把确保身边有自己亲手挑选的一群聪明的年轻军官当作自己的职责。

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Additionally, some of the world's most successful organizations have made unique HR practices a core element of their overall business strategies.

此外，一些世界上最成功的组织已经把独特的人力资源实践作为其整体商业战略的核心元素。

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Sure, this will only delay the inevitable, as the whole business moves online, but there is a whole lot of money to be made in sweating a business for a couple of decades even as it progresses into irrelevancy.

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In the last crisis, taxpayers made a nice business out of relieving a bank panic that arose, circularly, from fear that taxpayers would not act to relieve a bank panic.

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The first fractional reserve lenders (typically the goldsmiths of bygone days) were those who issued receipts for storage of gold on behalf of others in the community, and who made a side business of lending.

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