High-strength special-shape tighteners and fixers

高强度异型紧固件

||1:The good news is that enforcement has got tougher, smarter and more co-ordinated.||2:Gone are the days when price-fixers got a slap on the wrist.||3:Firms can expect swingeing fines, and bosses can go to jail.||4:Since many cartels now operate across borders, so do investigators: American and Japanese trustbusters joined forces to flush out the car-parts cartels.||5:And incentives for whistleblowers have also increased: around 50 countries now offer immunity or reduced penalties for snitches.

||1:好消息是，执法方面变得更为严格，更加智能，也更为协调。||2:价格固定器被撞到腰的日子一去不复返了。||3:企业可以预期被处以巨额的罚款，老板可能会进监狱。||4:由于许多卡特尔垄断组织从事跨国经营，调查者们也同样是跨国合作的：美国和日本的反托拉斯者联手改变汽车零部件垄断现象。||5:并使举报人的奖励也得以增加：约50个国家现在规定提供豁免权或对打小报告减少处罚。

||1:That is all for the better, but the penalties for price-fixing remain too mild.||2:The best study of the issue so far concluded that, given the still-low risk of detection, collusion pays.||3:Yet beyond a certain point—which the fines now imposed by American and European regulators have probably reached—fines inflict so much damage on guilty companies that they undermine competition instead of enhancing it.||4:The answer is stiffer prison sentences, particularly for senior executives.||5:American courts, only too ready to lock up other types of miscreants for a long time, have rarely jailed egregious price-fixers for anything like the maximum of ten years that the law allows.||6:Other countries have even more scope to increase sentences.

||1:这是为了能够使得情况有所好转，但是对于操纵价格的处罚仍然过于温和。||2:这个问题的最好的研究，就是到目前为止的结论是，鉴于检测仍低风险，共谋会付出代价。||3:然而，除这点之外，现在由美国和欧洲监管机构处以的罚款可能已经达到——罚款对于有罪责的公司所造成的破坏，相比提升其竞争力而言，反而削弱了该公司的竞争力。||4:答案就是严厉的监狱服刑，特别是对于高级管理人员的处罚。||5:美国法院很愿意关押其他类型的歹徒达更长的时间，他们很少对过分的价格制定者实行监禁，比如法律所允许的最长可达十年的监禁期。||6:其他国家拥有更多的增加刑罚的范围权限。

Fixers working for Chinese companies report a steady stream of inquiries from cash-strapped European firms.

为中国公司工作的调停者报告说捉襟见肘的欧洲公司咨询电话源源不断。

Some arrive with a factory job already arranged by relatives or fixers ; some come to the cities and then look for work.

一些来的时候已经被亲戚或者其他人介绍到工厂里工作，另外一些来了以后才开始找寻工作。

price fixers who practise duplicity to cheat the public

用欺诈手段来骗大众的定零售物价者

It threatens to curb the excessive powers of the press, party fixers and prime minister.

这有可能遏制媒体、党派修复者和总理的过度权力。