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Business English Lesson — Advanced Level's archive Business Buzzwords: Young Companies 1.... capitalists mitigate the risk of investing by developing a portfolio of young companies in a

Business English Lesson — Advanced Level's archive

Business Buzzwords: Young Companies

1 capitalists mitigate the risk of investing by

developing a portfolio of young companies in a single

fund

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2 Sanyo Electric is cooperating with the investigation into its suspected window of earnings; Sanyo may have falsified its fiscal 2003 earnings report, writing off far fewer losses than its subsidiaries had and falsely reporting a profit when it was in the red

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3 Price discrepancies, although at odds with mainstream finance, are persistent phenomena in financial markets; these apparent mispricings lead to the presence of who aim to exploit the resulting profit opportunities, but

whose role remains controversial

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4 While we anticipate that a supplemental for FYO7 will ultimately be signed into law, we expect uncertainty

surrounding the level of DoD funding will continue, and as

a result, we have less into our next fiscal year than

we normally would have at this point in the year

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5 "One of the reasons we have a healthcare crisis is because, as a consumer, | don't have that much in the game," said Arkansas GOP Gov Mike Huckabee,

"there needs to be a transformation from a third-party insurance system to more financial participation by the patient."

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6 A lot of investors and fund managers sold the stock only

to buy it a few days later at lower prices; but there is

brokerage to be paid on both the transactions (while

buying and selling), so unless the fund manager will make

a lot of money on that stock, may not be all that

prudent after all

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7 The five largest music companies and music retailers agreed to pay $67.4 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged price- in the late 1990s; prosecutors said that the industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between

1995 and 2000 with a practice known as 'minimum-

advertised pricing’

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8 Insiders are an obvious target for policies designed to provide information security, because they have legitimate

uses for communication channels that can also be used to

breach security; by restricting the use of these channels, the organisation can create barriers to information

“ bondage

“ breakage

“ leakage

“ spillage

9 pitch is a quick and concise way to communicate who you are, what you do, and why you do it better; it's more than a mission statement — it's understanding your business in a way that gets people excited, involved, and thinking

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10 If a trader is in a long position on a currency pair and the exchange rate moves upward in her favor a bit but fails

to move past a key resistance level she was expecting as

a catalyst for further movement, the trader would probably

deem the trade on a failure and close It out for

whatever profit had been earned

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