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is an exceptional compensation package offered by an acquiring company to the top executives of the company being bought, meant to keep them interested in retaining their positions; but

English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive

Business buzzwords: Compensation

1 A golden is an exceptional compensation

package offered by an acquiring company to the top

executives of the company being bought, meant to keep

them interested in retaining their positions; but it may not

be in the best interests of shareholders

hello

life jacket

pasrachute

pillow

2 The policy combines commercial discretion with

legally enforceable mandatory controls; it is required in the

operation of many financial services organizations and is,

therefore, perhaps as significant to the financial world as

Bell-LaPadula's policies are to the military

Chinese Wall

Escape Hatch

Lobeter Trap

Vow of Silence

3 In the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved

revenue of $649.4 million and earnings per share were

$0.30; the consensus estimates were for $655 million in

revenue and $0.29 in eps, which means that for the

quarter Adobe missed on the line but more than

made it up by controlling expenses

black

bottom

red

top

4 Securities held by a brokerage firm that meet specific

qualifications are used as collateral for securing brokers'

loans or customers' margin positions; they are held in

safekeeping for clients of a broker/dealer or for the

broker/dealer itself in a physical location known as the

'active '

box

case

desk

safe

5 The Commission's Order finds that various NYSE

specialists repeatedly engaged in unlawful proprietary

trading, which took various forms, including the

firms' dealer accounts between customer orders and

trading ahead for their dealer accounts in front of

executable agency orders on the same side of the market

interpellating

interpolating

interposing

interpositioning

6 A economy has left many private golf clubs

desperate for new members; stagnant growth of golf

participation during the past five years, a surplus of private

courses and the recession are prime reasons this is one of

the best buyer's markets for private golf in recent memory

comatose

lethargic

sluggish

torpid

7 The inter-relation of economic empire , both in

terms of control over overseas markets and enterprises, is

closely linked to domestic policies: tax cuts for the

corporation and rich increase capital for export, and

privatized social security adds billions in profits for Wall

Street investment banks

building

making

raising

shaping

8 Given that we approach the holiday season and that

ANZ has potential further upside, a trading strategy

referred to as may be an appropriate strategy for

this stock; this option strategy involves buying a call option

and selling two call options all with different strike prices

a Christmas Tree

an Easter Egg

a Thanksgiving Turkey

a Valentine

9 This book highlights advanced technologies that might

help you make decisions on when to buy or sell stocks,

track their ups and downs, and analyze your portfolio,

while you're at it; but don't forget, though they might give a

bit of techie buzz to investing, there are limits to what

science can do to help investors

computer

mental

rocket

silicon

10 up is a process where the company's assets will

be gathered and will be used to pay all debts, and the

balance for the cost of this process will be distributed

among the shareholders according to their interests in the

company

Sealing

Shutting

Winding

Wrapping