And that's one of the big differences between a corporate-owned chain store and a family-owned business is that daily life and business are blended together.

集团经营的连锁店和家庭式经营的最大分别是，起居生活和商业混合在一起。

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In the past, the operators essentially owned the value chain; not anymore.

在过去，运营商完全拥有价值链。

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Dressed in impeccably cut suits and wheeling his carry-on bag with the deftness of a seasoned pro, he glides through airports and chain hotels as if he owned them, as in a sense he does.

电影的每场戏里都有洋溢着典型美式自信的克鲁尼，他身穿剪裁得体的西装，像个见多识广的专家一样灵巧地拉着自己的行李箱，穿行于机场与连锁酒店之间，仿佛它们全是属于他的。 不过从某种意义上说，也的确是这么回事。

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Sun Fei, the manager of a 230-room branch of Motel 168, a privately-owned chain, says he has only 60 parking spaces.

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Pawel Szalamacha, the dynamic deputy privatisation minister, says that Ruch, the sleepy state-owned chain of newspaper kiosks, will be restructured and sold this summer.

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In the early 1980s, when a crime wave threatened to wipe out Jamaica's tourist industry, it was rescued by Sandals, a locally-owned chain, which marketed its all-inclusive hotels as a safe way to visit the island.

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