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Quite apart from any awkwardness in the way he handled the hostile bid by rival Oracle for the firm he was running, Craig Conway seems to have been an unpopular CEO of PeopleSoft, a large enterprise-software company. Three managers who reported directly to him were apparently close to resigning in frustration, and the board was unhappy about "mis-statements" he made to analysts. So even though there was no "smoking gun", as the board put it, Mr. Conway was fired on October 1st and replaced by the firm’s founder, David Duffield.
Mr. Duffield’s brief is now to address Mr. Conway’s perceived shortcomings and his obsession with fending off the $ 7.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle. At the same time, says Paul Hamerman of Forrester, a research firm, Mr. Conway offered no compelling technological vision for PeopleSoft, and seemed deaf to "quite a noise level of customer complaints". Mr. Conway’s firing
A. this kind of trade is now illegal.
B. PeopleSoft has adopted anti-takeover strategy.
C. PeopleSoft demands a high price.
D. Mr. Conway rejects the takeover.
| 某城市桥梁工程在现浇预应力钢筋混凝土连续梁施工中，对现浇预应力混凝土连续梁的不同施工方法进行对比分析，希望能在适合的地段用最合理的方法进行施工。以求顺利地完成这项工程。 |
Most of the animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership which is good for both of them. You may see some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they move the cause of discomfort. So although they can live without each other, they do better together.
Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners can- not live without each other. This is so in the corals (珊瑚) of the sea. In their skins there are tiny plants which act as "dustmen", taking some of the waste products from the corals and giving in re- turn oxygen (氧气) which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from receiving light so that they cannot live normally,
A. birds and parasites
B. birds and sheep
C. parasites and sheep
D. sheep, birds and parasites
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