Apple became the most high-profile technology company caught up in a broad series of options backdating scandals that helped inflate the profits executives made from their stock awards.

苹果成为了一系列股票日期倒填丑闻中最引人注目的科技公司，这些丑闻推高了高官们从股票奖励中获得的利润。

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The fact that you have ideas on how to increase profits is your good fortune, so don't inflate the price you offer because of opportunities you have identified.

事实上你了解如何增加利润是你的财运使然，因此不要因为看到机遇所在便肆意涨价、压价。

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China's state banks have long been accused of benefiting from low deposit rates, which helps to inflate their profits.

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Federal indictments handed down on Mar. 13 accuse former chief executive Carl Putnam, onetime chief financial officer Donald Welchko and four others of engaging in a scheme to inflate sales and profits that led to Anicom's bankruptcy two years ago.

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The same thinking that spurs once-innovative American companies to slash research and investment in order to inflate short-term profits.

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