In order to protect their global reputation, multi-nationals tend to take greater care over safety, the environment and legal compliance concerning their projects than their local counterparts.

跨国公司为了维护其全球声誉，在安全上往往采取更审慎的态度，也比当地同行的项目更注重环境和法律的规定。

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By their very nature, declining businesses--particularly unionized ones--tend to protect their older members and encrusted bureaucracies more than they look to the future.

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It's unheard of, and it's because the French tend to protect small businesses.

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Those public servants deployed globally to protect us are an exceptionally small percentage of our population, and we tend to remain unaware of the burdens they shoulder on our behalf, often in hazardous conditions.

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