Japanese businessmen generally regard outside investors as greedy speculators rather than partners.

日本商人大部分会把外来投资者看作贪婪的投机商，而非合作伙伴。

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Rather than expand by attempting to develop its own offices abroad, the company solved its globalization dilemma effectively by forging alliances with the best foreign partners it could find.

该公司没有试图在海外发展自己的办事处，而是通过与它能找到的最好的外国合作伙伴结成联盟，有效地解决了全球化困境。

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As above, there are genuine opportunities for business in these environments: opportunities in which the poor are seen as clients and partners, rather than beneficiaries or aid recipients.

如上所示，在这些环境中有着真正的商业机会：在这些机会中，贫困者更多被视为客户与合作伙伴，而不是受益人或受援者。

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But rarely have hackers breached a bank itself rather than the partners or retail outlets that often store large caches of those card numbers.

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The only reason they might have had Maine income tax is because they were partners rather than employees.

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But if it just lectures its partners rather than co-ordinating policies, it risks aggravating tensions within the euro group rather than alleviating them.

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