In earnings conference calls on September 16th, the chief financial officers of both firms had to bat away analysts' questions about their ability to survive on their own.

在9月16日的收益电话会议中，两家公司的首席财务官都对分析家对他们是否能独自脱困的质疑讳莫如深。

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Finally, to demonstrate the support for FirstGov among IT professionals, at a conference last week of State Chief Information Officers involving the Federal CIO Council, the States said they thought FirstGov was a tremendous advance and asked how they could work with the CIO council and be a part of it!

WHITEHOUSE: Statement of The Honorable Sally Katzen

Earlier, delegates at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester held a minute's silence in honour of the two officers.

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David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina of Stanford's Graduate School of Business analysed the transcripts of nearly 30, 000 conference calls by American chief executives and chief financial officers between 2003 and 2007.

ECONOMIST: It's not just that his lips are moving