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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
Business Buzzwords: Hostile Deal
1. That scenario would include the make-your-best-offer
propositions like Verizon and MCI, the ' knight'
attempts to upset existing agreements like Blockbuster's,
and straightforward hostile deals, which have been rather
rare recently.

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2. Leaders on both sides of the Pacific agree on the need
to encourage long-term investments in factories and
businesses and to minimize the boom and bust effects of
so-called ' money', the term for funds from
investment companies, banks, and currency traders
seeking a high rate of return on a short-term commitment.

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fast
hot
tall
3. Zinc just recently achieved a nominal all-time high and
along with its fellow base metals counterparts has bucked
the commodities trend in recent months, having an
amazing run in its own market.

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4. Does Your Boss Play ? — An account manager
thought he was starting off well during his first week at a
large advertising agency in Los Angeles, but just a few
weeks later, his boss abruptly called him into his office and
addressed him using a demeanor and tone he'd never
experienced in his 17-year business career.

Abbot and Costello
Freud and Jung
Jekyll and Hyde
Laurel and Hardy
5. The eagerness for quick riches is hard to squelch;
indeed, after an investing bubble, bubble where
investors rush in to buy all over again isn't uncommon.

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an empty
6. The IMF estimates money , the process drug
traffickers use to introduce proceeds of the sale or
distribution of controlled substances into the legitimate
financial market, to amount to between 2 and 5 percent of
the world's GDP, about $600 billion annually.

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laundering
polishing
washing

7. "For now, let me just say that a strategic point is a
time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are
about to change; that change can mean an opportunity to
rise to new heights, but it may just as likely signal the
beginning of the end." (Andrew S. Grove)

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8. The scheme continues to work on the 'rob-Peter-
to-pay-Paul' principle, as money from new investors is
used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme
collapses.

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Lapping
Paranjape
Ponzi
9. prefer low interest rates as a means of
encouraging growth within the economy because this
tends to lead to increased demand for consumer
borrowing and spurs an increase in consumer spending;
they believe the negative effects of low interest rates are
negligible in the larger scheme of things.

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Hawks

10. The rate in 1974 was about 7-8 percent, but
today that rate is about 33 percent; even well established
leadership companies can be swept away very, very fast
now.

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