General Motors appointed Ed Whitacre as chief executive.

通用电气任命Ed Whitacre为首席执行官。

Whitacre said on Thursday that GM was preparing its IPO filing.

上周四，惠特克曾表示，通用IPO事宜正在准备过程当中。

No wonder that not even the bullish Mr Whitacre is declaring victory just yet

这也难怪高调的惠斯特还没有宣布胜利。

Mr Whitacre replaced or shifted 12 of GM’s top 13 executives. Now he too is leaving.

Whitacre上任后替换或调任了通用13名高管中的12名，而现在他自己也即将离开。

GM is addicted to hefty sales incentives to move the cars and new CEO Ed Whitacre knows it.

通用汽车现在已经对挥泪大促销上瘾，新首席执行长惠塔克里对此心知肚明。

The overhaul is part of a drive by Mr. Whitacre to accelerate decision-making and turn GM into a leaner, nimbler company.

这是惠塔克加快决策过程、把通用汽车转变成为一个更加精简灵活的公司的行动之一。

Although he has never been in charge of a manufacturing company, the 67-year-old Mr Whitacre promised to “learn about cars”.

虽然他从来没有负责过制造型公司的运营，67岁的惠特克承诺去“了解汽车”。

Whitacre in December said the money would be repaid by the end of June, and recently has hinted the payback would come even sooner.

惠塔克去年12月表示将在今年6月底之前还完，最近又暗示时间可能会进一步提前。

Mr. Whitacre has been given briefing books by GM financial staffers to study, according to an executive involved in compiling the books.

一名相关人士说，通用汽车财务部门的职员汇编了情况说明书，供惠塔克研究。

Mr Whitacre made his reputation running one of the small telecom firms that emerged from the break-up of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).

Whitacre因为管理一家从美国电话电报公司分离出来继而崛起的小电信公司而赚得声誉。

Mr. Whitacre is coming into the chairman job with no auto industry experience. But some people who know Mr. Whitacre said he's up to the task.

即将就任董事长的惠塔克没有汽车业经验。不过一些认识惠塔克的人说，他是这个工作的合格人选。

He told reporters he 'shares the same vision' as Mr. Whitacre and, when asked if there would be dramatic changes, he said it is' safe to assume 'that won't be the case.

他对记者说，他和惠塔克“有着同样的眼光”，当被问到是否会进行大幅度的变革时，他说这种情况不大可能发生。

That does not mean that big telecoms firms should be allowed to interfere with access to sites that do not pay them. But Mr Whitacre insists that he has no plans to do so.

这并不意味着大型电信公司应该被授权可以干涉那些没有付费的公司的网络接入，并且怀塔克尔先生也坚称他并不打算这样做。

'Fritz has done a remarkable job.' Mr. Whitacre told reporters at a news conference at GM headquarters. But 'we all agreed that some changes needed to be made going forward.

惠塔克在通用汽车总部召开的新闻发布会上对记者表示，韩德胜工作表现得很不错，但我们都认为未来需要作出一些改变。

Mr. Whitacre said the company's priorities were returning to profitability and repaying the tens of billions of dollars in loans GM received from U. S. and Canadian taxpayers.

惠塔克说，公司的当务之急是重新盈利，偿还从美国和加拿大纳税人获得的数百亿美元贷款。

Although GM has begun to look for an executive recruiting firm to help find a permanent CEO, Mr. Whitacre said earlier this week that he may hold the CEO job for as long as a year.

尽管通用汽车已经开始寻找高管猎头公司帮助寻找长期首席执行长，惠塔克上周早些时候却说，他可能会担任首席执行长一年。