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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive

Business Buzzwords: Competitive Advantage

1 An important theme of research related to the industry

is that strategies for achieving competitive

advantage differ depending on the stage: firms compete

primarily on alternative product designs and positioning

early in the history of an industry, whereas cost becomes

a more important basis of competition in later stages

development

evolution

flowchart

lifecycle

2 Yahoo! and MSN are both good examples of

because both have sites in different languages specifically

targeted at the people of several countries

culturalization

glocalization

ramification

specialization

3 It appeared that Old Mutual had fallen prey to a bear

, where short sellers had entered the market for Old

Mutual shares and had closed out their positions early this

week; Poole said, "The market reacted very badly to our

announcement, and we take losing 10 % of our price

seriously."

attack

market

raid

scare

4 "An obsession with wealth has led to epidemic",

says Oliver James, "the virus is a set of values which

increase our vulnerability to psychological distress, placing

a high value on acquiring money and possessions, looking

good in the eyes of others and wanting to be famous."

a Mad Cash Disease

a Moneyosis

an Affluenza

a Newmonia

5 In 1982, Barry Minkow started his own rug-cleaning

business called Best and eventually turned it into a

public company with a paper value of more than $200

million; he was given a hero's welcome on Wall Street, but

in December 1988, he was convicted on 57 counts of

fraud and sentenced to 25 years in jail

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6 The seller of T Bond futures does not have to notify the

clearing house until 8 pm about his intention to deliver, so

if bond prices decline after 2 pm, the seller can notify the

clearing house of his intention to deliver the cheapest

bond that day or he can wait for the next day: this option is

called the card play

down

high

hole

wild

7 The accounting employed by iMergent could be

the reason why the company has lost all coverage from

major brokerage houses and now reports numbers to the

public without independent scrutiny; in 2005, it confessed

a huge restatement of prior earnings and rolled up a mass

of prior years' unreported losses

abracadabra

hocuspocus

hoodoo

voodoo

8 A bond is one whose interest and principal

payments are made from a fund into which a company

sets aside money over time, in order to retire its preferred

stock, bonds or debentures

saver

sinker

storage

surety

9 A Brookfield real estate agent was charged Thursday in

federal court with trying to get a $75,000 in the form

of a percentage of the sale if the bidder's proposal was

accepted, in exchange for giving out confidential bid

information on the sale of a $30 million state office building

in Madison

backup

blackmail

kickback

rebate

10 Investors are starting to worry that Symantec, which

makes the popular Norton brand of anti-virus software, is

in danger of being : Microsoft has made some

rumblings lately about stepping up its presence in security

software

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