A Defining Battle

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Prosaic relationships take place remotely as well as closely. They often sit side by side but they more often than not position themselves miles apart. Figuratively speaking, relatives, whatever miles they live apart, should be called as such.

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(1)He knew what he needed to do, but he also had to persuade Sergey and Larry to accept the necessity of building a business infrastructure. For instance, the financial record-keeping and payroll systems were being run using off-the-shelf software from Quicken, the kind people use to do their own income taxes or operate a very small enterprise. "That was fine for a start-up, but not for this company with 200 employees and $20 million in revenues," said Schmidt.

(2)This turned into a defining battle. Schmidt wanted to bring in a major business and financial record-keeping system from Oracle; that was his job........(The Google Story, David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, p.110) (The Korean version, p. 172)

Dano's comments:
Think relationships. Everything is relationships. The English language as well as the rest of the global languages is the language of the relationships. Is it so hard for you the so-called translator in South Korea to understand that relationships also take place between paragraphs? Just like they function between words, phrases, and sentences?

The bold-typed statement released in the first sentence of the paragraph (2) is the very windfall of the contentions of the paragraph (1). The sentence speaks to the readers of the book that there arose an acerbic argument between the new CEO of Google, Mr. Schmidt, and the two young founders of Google over the definitions of startups and non-startups.