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One is always going to lose…
1.Building Societies currently find themselves in a
situation because they try to please the savers and also
the borrowers and yet one group is always going to lose
perfect
precarious
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pertinent
2.Whenever there is a meeting between the finance
minister and the governor of the bank, people start asking
questions and rumours
abut
about
abound
abide
Trang 33.Invariably if interest rates go up, the building societies
pay more to their savers and borrowers complain at the
increase they have to pay and maintain the societies are
their affairs
mistaking
misplacing
misfiring
mishandling
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and smile a lot because they want to the concerns
of their borrowers
assuage
assert
assemble
assent
5.Months go by and most people forget their problems and
get used to the idea of paying more and then talks
and the whole process starts all over again
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return
6.The government then has to show that it is involved in
the whole business of saving and lending and tries to
convince everyone that it is of both savers and
lenders
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supportive
supported
7.The government next announces that measures are due
to come into that will change the whole process
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forced
force
forcing
Trang 78.They say this but then the difficulty is trying to find out
when the measures are coming into effect and when they
will be
rated
ratified
rates
rating
9.This is all very disappointing for the house buyer
who doesn't really know what's going to happen next and
how much the interest rate will be
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10.Our poor potential buyer reads the papers, watches the
television news and gets excited at the prospect of
another meeting of the financiers but in the end nothing of
comes of it all
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noted