The merged outfit should easily be able to cope if one line of work suddenly shrinks, as scripted television did during the 2007-08 writers' strike.

所以合并后的公司可以在一条产品线突然缩水的情况下从容应对，如同2007到2008年在编剧罢工冲击下的剧本行业。

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Lightning streams across the sky towards downtown last night as one bolt appears to strike the Willis Tower, left, once again.

从另一边看，云层中穿出的闪电又一次击中了威利斯大厦(左)。

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The thesis may at first strike one as extreme, but substantial evidence exists to support it.

这一论文起初给人以偏激的印象，但是存在大量的证据支持这一观点。

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One of Palmer's first actions as Attorney General was to prevent coal miners from going on strike.

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It really does strike me as an extraordinary decision, one that will have unpredictable long-term effects.

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Since the 1994 strike, only one team devoting as much as 20% of its payroll to one player has won a World Series.

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On that same subject, David Cameron's suggestion that if he won power, he would bring opposition leaders into a war cabinet would strike many people as a very sensible one.

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