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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive Business Buzzwords: Hostile Deal 1.. money', the term for funds from investment companies, banks, and currency traders seeking a high

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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

black

gray

white

yellow

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

easy

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

alloy

back

bull

side

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

a baby

a double

an echo

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

cleaning

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)

crux

inflection

pivot

triple

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

Feebate

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

Bears

Bulls

Doves

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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topple

tumble