For 25 years he grunted his way through various departments at NCR, another (albeit much smaller) hardware maker with a sprawling portfolio of businesses, becoming its chief executive two years ago.

他曾在NCR(另一家业务分散繁杂的硬件制造商，尽管小得多)的不同部门疲于奔命25年，两年前成为了首席执行官。

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With a set of buttons and a loud bell, the device, sold by National Cash Register (NCR), was little more than a simple adding machine.

全国现金出纳机公司卖给他的这套装置有一组按钮和一个很响的铃铛，也就一个加法机那么简单。

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Certain manufacturers such as GE, Emerson and NCR have said they will bring some outsourced production back to America, but that will do little to close the gap.

某些制造商例如GE，埃莫森和NCR宣称他们将把一些生产外包拿回美国，但这也不足以弥补此缺口。

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That's right, that NCR--the 117-year-old cash register firm where Thomas Watson worked before he went off to run IBM.

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In June, the company bought out the second-leading player in the disc-rental kiosk market, the NCR-owned Blockbuster Express kiosks (in which the store chain held an interest).

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Hurd, previously chief executive of NCR (nyse: NCR - news - people ), came to HP in April, four months after HP's board fired Carly Fiorina .

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