北美的文化之一就是Laid off， 这是我读Condoleezza Rice 个人传记时有关 National Security Council （NSC） 的描述：NSC was known for as a place where the weeding-out process was pretty severe: it wasn't uncommon to have a colleague with whom you were working on Monday disappear by Friday. No one ever asked what happened, but it was assumed that he or she has made an unforgivable mistake that embarrassed the White House or, even more unforgivably, the President.
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