There was one caveat: he was not to enter into a merger or otherwise weaken the Roche family's control of the firm.

提醒一下：他不是要参与并购或其他削弱罗技家族对该公司控制的行动。

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And on the whole, on the whole I would tend to agree with that, but it does seem to me, I would want to enter a caveat, I don't think it's altogether quite so easy to have clear blue water between what you might call the private and the public.

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