Business is in the throes of a passionate love affair with simplicity - all the way up from product design to organisational design.

我们的商业正处在这场和“简约”之间热情似火的爱意当中阵痛：一路从产品设计到组织设计都是这样。

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I've got friends, of course, but my business has always been the same a one-man affair. That is why I have always Played a lone hand.

当然，我也有朋友，但是我的生意还是一个人的事情，那就为什么我一直扮演一个孤独者的角色。

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Whatever else carnival may be, it is above all a pageant and no time for tears. And it is now a big business too, rather than the cosy community affair of old.

尽管人们可能带着某些情绪，但毕竟这是个狂欢节，是一桩没有太多时间留给眼泪的大买卖，不应该有一丁点敬老院里的舒适和缓慢。

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The most striking thing about the affair is that a set of business tycoons have, so far, behaved in a way that is a lot more civilised than anything seen from the Russian state.

ECONOMIST: Business in Russia

Clinton's five-hour stopover on March 25 was a low-key affair, brusquely business-like and conspicuously devoid of the enthusiastic celebration of local life that had marked Clinton's triumphal passage across India.

CNN: The India Tilt

The Lewinsky affair hit Bill Clinton at a similar time, after a run of other bits of sexy, sleazy business.

ECONOMIST: George Bush at bay