Admittedly, there are occasions when you can get away with hiring an interpreter solely on the basis of cost. A good example is when the only reason for hiring an interpreter is to show your counterpart that you care enough about the meeting to hire an interpreter. On the other hand, there are meetings where every word, every ounce of nuance counts in order to convey the intended message. I remember a tense meeting between two companies where both sides blamed each other for the loss of a...