AFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to worry about was balancing the interests of its French and American parts.

自从两年前阿尔卡特和朗讯公司合并之后，这家合并的公司最费劲的一件事就是平衡法国和美国两方的利益。

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The merger was supposed to make Alcatel-Lucent more competitive, but cost savings have been hard to realise, despite 16, 500 job losses from a workforce of 88, 000.

本来，合并是想让阿尔卡特朗讯更具竞争力。但是，尽管已经从88000名员工中裁员了16500，公司还是难以实现成本的节省。

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This will help Microsoft in another infringement case in which it was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent, a telecoms-equipment firm, largely on the basis of sales outside America.

这样在对主要从事海外业务的阿尔卡特-朗讯公司要求15亿美元的专利侵权赔偿时，微软就有话说了。

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Within the last year, CFIUS's merger reviews have included the Alcatel-Lucent deal as well as the acquisition that created the oil and gas drilling company CGG Veritas.

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The carrier awarded contracts for the planned upgrade to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Ericsson (ERIC) and Samsung to implement the planned upgrades.

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