Now that the company has stumbled badly on the quality front, and recorded a big loss for the first half of its fiscal year, Toyota's crusade for hipness is taking on more urgency.

如今公司在质量方面跌跌撞撞，根据记录显示前半个财政年度损失惨重，丰田向潮流进发的远征任务显得更加紧迫。

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The political problem in Europe may be that its leaders have not prepared their populations for making the hard decisions that are required on the fiscal front.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit is inclined to believe that, having made so much progress on the fiscal front, Mr Gyurcsany will not allow the budget deficit to inflate once more in 2009.

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Brazil has some of the highest corporate and retail taxes in the world, so unlike the U.S., there is a lot of room to move on the fiscal front when facing an economic slowdown.

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