Few firms have the crushing legacycosts of GM or Chrysler, and few carry such unbearable debts.
没有公司会负担像通用和克莱斯勒那样让人窒息的遗产，也没有公司会负担如此沉重的债务。
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The more Detroit's Big Three—GM, Ford and Chrysler—have done to reduce capacity and improve productivity, the more heavily such legacycosts have hung around their necks.
Categorize all the legacy application in terms of the business returns they provide and maintenance costs the organization would have to incur to sustain it.