If the office itself is starting to look run down and like its in need of an upgrade, it's indicative of excessive belt-tightening measures.

如果办公室看起来是在走向衰败而且需要来一次升级，这就表明贵公司已经开始在勒紧裤腰带过日子了。

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As part of the belt-tightening, the company will permanently scale back plans for expansion after 2008, when it will open new stores at the slowest rate in its 30-year history.

作为强制性节约的一部分，公司将在2008年后永久的收缩战略，那时将会是该公司三十年来开新店速度最慢的时期。

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Well after that, the bond price went up because people saw that as a sign that the company was tightening its belt and doing things right to have money to pay off the bondholders; so it was self-interested, I suppose--maybe you can ask him about this.

在这之后,债券的价格升高了,因为人们认为降低红利是一个信号,说明公司开始紧缩开支走向正轨,并且去偿付债券持有人,莱德利夫通过这种做法达到利己的目的,我想你们可以就此事向莱德利夫提问

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