When Dickens wrote about the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities, he did it with nearly a century of hindsight. Here, at the end of December, I don’t enjoy that luxury. As such, some of the trends I’ve written here are likely to remain in force for the foreseeable future, while others may have already begun to fade. As one of this period’s “noisiest authorities,” I insist only on your receiving this review with just one caveat in mind: Past performance does not guarantee future results.
416在这份榜单上，名列C罗和梅西之后的是NBA球星勒布朗·詹姆斯（5300万英镑）和网球运动员罗杰·费德勒（4600万英镑）。
112GM is addicted to hefty sales incentives to move the cars and new CEO Ed Whitacre knows it. In 2010, he will slash incentives and end up abandoning GM's 20% U.S. market share target to find profitability. The search will prove elusive.
437吉尔伯特称，冬季假期会让这个领域的热度降低，但真正的试金石在于各家公司能否开发出可以通过“返回考验”的可穿戴设备——如果人们已经走出了家门好几步，依然决定返回去取忘带了的可穿戴设备，就像他们去取忘掉的钱包、钥匙、手机一样，这个设备就成功了。
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