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| 释义 | 财大气粗 Big Tobacco can afford to hire the best lawyers and PR firms. Cash-heavy consumers are eager to appear flashy and are willing to pay premium prices to catch second glances. Rich supporters of gay rights will fund successful campaigns to spread gay marriage to places that currently bar it. If the measures set out in the Framework Convention were fully implemented, they could overpower or at least stand up to industry tactics, even as well-financed and ruthless as these are known to be. Even Google, the arch- disrupter, is looking tame. First, the world's most deep- pocketed oil companies, the Western oil majors, are increasingly excluded from the most promising areas for exploration and development. Not only do they sit above Manchester City, but they also beat them in the Charity Shield. In America, Hank Paulson, a former treasury secretary, and Jon Corzine, the governor of New Jersey, are both former chief executives of Goldman Sachs, a bank apparently blessed by Midas. The arrogance of big money, Mrs Astor wrote once, “ is one of the most unappealing of characteristics”. During the financial crisis, only energetic arm-twisting and deep- pocketed IMF and EU support averted a meltdown of the economy. Many financial institutions have been bailed out: the rescue of the once mighty Citigroup is merely the latest unthinkable to happen. |
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