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For other companies, the problems stem from acquisitions that haven't worked. Among them is Conseco Inc., the Indianapolis-based financial-services firm that, under then-Chief Executive Steven C. Hilbert, swung dozens of deals during the 1990s. But its biggest deal, the 1998 purchase of Green Tree Financial Corp. for $7.6 billion, hasn't panned out. And Conseco is struggling to service its debt. Given Conseco's deteriorating cash position, "it's going to be difficult for them" to make good on the $1.1 billion in debt payments due later in 2002, says Salomon Smith Barney analyst Cohn W. Devine.

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For other companies, the problems stem from acquisitions that haven’t worked. Conseco Inc. is an example facing problems of this kind.

对其他一些公司而言，问题则源自那些被并购来但未产生效益的公司，康赛科就是个面临这类问题的公司。

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Among them is Conseco Inc., the Indianapolis-based financial-services firm that, under then-Chief Executive Steven C. Hilbert, swung dozens of deals during the 1990s.
1）此句的表语比较短，主语比较长，因而也采用倒装的语序
2）Conseco Inc. 是主语
3）the Indianapolis-based financial-services firm that, under then-Chief Executive Steven C. Hilbert, swung dozens of deals during the 1990s 是主语的同位语，说明Conseco Inc.的性质，其中that, under then-Chief Executive Steven C. Hilbert, swung dozens of deals during the 1990s 是限制性定语从句，修饰名词firm

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