The company, which releases its 2009 results today, was once dismissed as a copy-cat manufacturer and poor cousin to its Japanese rivals.

三星今日将公布2009年业绩。该公司一度被贬视为只能模仿的制造商、日本同行的穷亲戚。

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Then Michael Vaughan (14) followed him back to the pavilion with a copy-cat shot.

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If it goes ahead, Wal-Mart will enter via acquisition of local retailer Massmart which is, as the name suggests, a copy-cat company anyway, so it would seem all there is to talk about is price.

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One solution is to import generic drugs from countries such as India, which does a thriving trade in copy-cat pharmaceuticals because it is not yet obliged to recognise drug patents.

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