2008年9月16日 星期二

power broker, one change of clothes

No Bailout: Feds Made New Policy Clear in One Intense Weekend
When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. flew to New York Friday evening, he brought only one change of clothes. And he planned to send a simple message to the powerbrokers of the financial world: No government bailouts would be offered to Wall Street.
(By David Cho and Neil Irwin, The Washington Post)


one change of clothes 每天都穿同一套衣服 比喻 政策只同一條 不用納稅人的錢介入

power broker

(pou'ər-brō'kər)
or pow·er·brok·er n.

A person who exerts strong political or economic influence, especially by virtue of the individuals and votes he or she controls.

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