The offer, which was dictated by Steven Rattner, the former private-equity financier appointed by Barack Obama to lead the auto task-force, seemed almost designed to fail.
这项由奥巴马任命领导汽车特别工作组的前任私有财产金融家史蒂芬雷特纳提出的建议似乎注定会失败。
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I was upset by what I thought were excessive clear-cutting practices by some of our timber companies and appointed Steve Smith to head a task force to look into it.