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1.I hope I don't lose my job I just heard that our company

is going to start next week in an effort to cut costs

downgrading

supersizing

disaggregating

downsizing

2.I hope you don't lose your job It is happening

everywhere, though, because of the recession My sister

just lost her job because the company she works for just

went through the process of

rekindling

reorganizing

restructuring

replicating

3.Our company has created a competitive over

others in the industry by being the first to switch to a

just-in-time manufacturing system While others are spending

huge amounts for inventory storage, we are using that

same money to create new innovations

advantage

factor

platform

decision

4.We have decided to sell our delivery trucks and hire

Tom's Delivery Service to get our products to our

customers Delivering products is just not one of our

competencies Tom's price to deliver our goods is less

than what we spend on maintaining the trucks, paying our

drivers, and all the other costs associated with doing

deliveries

supporting

core

middle

concrete

5.We need to invest in new computers for the staff Ours

are too to perform the tasks we need them to fast

enough with today's software

downgraded

updated

postmarked

6.I used to work in inventory-management but, now,

computers do everything I used to do faster and better

When the computer system to do my kind of job first came

out, I had to and am now an accountant

reeducate

evolve

evolve

retrain

7.I am retired I started a computer software company that

grew into a fairly successful business It attracted the

attention of some of the larger companies and a very

attractive offer to sell was made After the new company

bought me , I had enough money to retire and enjoy

myself

on

in

out

back

8.Companies have realized the high cost and risk involved

with mergers and and are now becoming more

interested in short-term joint ventures

Acquiescence

aquisitions

auctions

inquisitions

9.Companies can reap great rewards from forming

strategic with other companies Some of these are

lower research and development costs, less risk, and

increased organizational learning

brotherhoods

alliances

armies

alumni

10.All of the major American auto manufacturers are

off employees General Motors just put another 21,000

workers on the unemployment list last week

letting

laying

shifting

routing