"Once we accept even self-imposed regulation, the culture of the company will change in bad ways," one former Microsoft executive told Wired at the time.

“一旦我们完全接受自己强加给自己的规则，那么，公司的文化将按不良的方式改变，”一位前微软高管在那段时间告诉《连线》杂志。

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When you're a wife and working mother, there's this inescapable, self-imposed pressure to do everything right all the time.

当你的妻子和母亲工作时，有这种不可避免的、自我的压力，做每件事的所有时间。

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Given the stakes involved in such decisions, it is particularly troublesome that we find ourselves in largely self-imposed time compression, an arrangement inconsistent with the requirement for thorough policy deliberation, to say nothing of the development of the sort of consensus both nationally and internationally that is in order before any further taxpayer resources are committed.

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Niall Quinn, Steve Staunton and Alan Kelly have retired while the spectre of Roy Keane, in self-imposed exile until such time as McCarthy is no longer in charge, still looms large.

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The architects will not discuss what this self-imposed task cost them in additional time, noting only that the Memorial Foundation has been scrupulous in its contractual agreements.

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