In the company in which I work, each of us is afraid of at least one person. The lower your 【B1】 is, the more people you are afraid of. 【B2】 all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped 【B3】 and build the company, now own and 【B4】 it. All these twelve men are 【B5】 now and drained (耗尽) by time and success of energy and ambition. Many have 【B6】 their whole lives here. They seem friendly, slow and 【B7】 when I come upon them in the halls and always courteous (谦恭的) when they 【B8】 with others in the public lifts. They 【B9】 work hard. They hold meetings, make promotions (推销活动), and allow their 【B10】 to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued (发布) by somebody else. Nobody is sure 【B11】 really runs the company, but the company does run. In the 【B12】 course of a business day I am afraid of Jack Green because my department is part of his department and Jack Green is my 【B13】 ; Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my department is done for the Sales Department, which is more 【B14】 than his department. Green distrusts me sometimes. He makes 【B15】 clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything 【B16】 out of my department before it's shown to other departments. I know he doesn't really mean this. He is 【B17】 busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all of mine, and I'll bypass (避开) him on most of our assignments (任务) rather than 【B18】 his time and delay their 【B19】 to people who have an immediate 【B20】 for them. 【B1】