Somebody else owned them, and discovered them, and demanded that they get paid, and ended up negotiating with the company, and we got a kicker.

其他人买了这些债券，发现了这个问题，然后要求偿付，到最后以和公司协商了事，然后我们得到了一个促销品。

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It's what they spend their time negotiating.

和他们花时间协商的问题。

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