But they own the theater. They can, at any time, bring the curtain down, turn off the lights, close the door and let the dogs out. Later the dogs all disappear and the sky seemed blue again;

但是这个剧场归他们所有，他们可以随时让这个舞台落下帷幕，熄灭灯光，切断电闸，关门放狗，最后狗过天晴，一切都无迹可寻。

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Dear CIO: For the past couple of years, your CEO and CFO have been threatening to bring down the sky unless you and your team began rebalancing the ratio of IT spending away from costly and low-value infrastructure and legacy baggage and toward customer-facing growth opportunities.

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