Have the difficult conversations and make the difficult choices to reduce scope or extend the date.

进行一些艰难的对话，做出艰难的决定，减少范围或者是延长时间。

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By aligning an executive's pay with the firm's share price, options reduce the scope for playing games.

ECONOMIST: Management pay

That would greatly reduce its scope, since most banned shrimps are actually farmed, not fished from turtle-inhabited waters.

ECONOMIST: Turtle soup

Any move to reduce the scope of the tax would lower the revenues it generates for Europe's cash-strapped governments.

WSJ: EU Likely to Weaken Proposed Transaction Tax