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This is a clear indication that your company is ethicallychallenged and robbing people of their hard earned money. 194. Attempts to integrate relevant global business information intothe curriculum are often not enough to meet expectations oftoday’s time-challenged business students. 5. Today’s capital-challenged business environment prohibits manycompanies from affording the IT infrastructure.6.
Advertising to the financially challenged ( a strategy whicheffectively targets and then engages people without a lot of extraincome) is counter intuitive to traditional marketing strategieswhich logically suggest that you target your marketing to peoplewith a lot of expendable income.14. CHARGECHARGE – v. назначать, взимать (цену)A vast proportion of derivatives are often sold by banks,which charge attractive commissions for their services.→ Значительную часть деривативов часто продаютбанки, которые взимают за свои услуги хорошие комиссионные.1. Gerard Law was for twenty years the number one loan sharkin Shettlestone, a deprived area of Glasgow.
The standardrate of interest Law charged his clients was a staggering 25% a week.2. Rather than looking to taxpayers to cover losses in bigdisasters, insurers would charge differential premiums(higher for those closest to hurricane zones).3. Shifting such vast amounts of gold in the middle of a warwas hugely risky, of course. Yet from the Rothschilds’ point ofview, the hefty commissions they were able to charge morethan justified the risks.204. Hedge funds typically ask for a minimum six- or seven-figureinvestment and charge a management fee of at least 2% of yourmoney (Citadel charges four times that) and 20% of the profits.5.
As a full service airline we include most things you will need foryour journey as part of your ticket price, but there are a few extrathings that we charge for.6. Both car and homeowners insurance companies usually lookat your credit history as part of determining what premium tocharge you.15. COMMITMENTCOMMITMENT – n. приверженность; обязанность;обязательство; заинтересованностьG8 nations reaffirmed their commitment to coordinateefforts to overcome the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
→Страны-члены Большой восьмерки подтвердили своюготовность (заинтересованность, решимость)координировать усилия по преодолению текущегокризиса и по предотвращению его повторения вбудущем.1. The aim of the study was to examine the commitment to businessethics of the top 500 companies.2. This state has made a firm commitment to a vibrant economy,one in which jobs can flourish.3. Critics called it backsliding and questioned the nation’scommitment to economic reform.4. When a business first begins operations, the owners of thebusiness enter into a financial commitment with one anotherand with the business.215. The leaders of the world’s most powerful economies endedtheir first day of discussions at the G8 summit in Italy with areaffirmation of their commitment to working together on theworld economic crisis, climate change and development aid tothe world’s poorest regions, in particular Africa. 6.
But the trouble with war, and even more so, with revolution, wasthat it increased the risk that a debtor state might fail to meet itscommitments.7. The larger the debts of the Italian cities became, the more bondsthey had to issue; and the more bonds they issued, the greaterthe risk that they might default on their commitments.16. BE COMMITTED TOBE COMMITTED TO – v.
passive быть преданным,посвятить себя (ч-л), считать своим долгом; братьна себя обязательствоWe are committed to sharing this information with ourRussian colleagues. → Мы считаем своей обязанностью поделиться этой информацией с нашими российскими коллегами.1. The president said he was “very committed” to making it a reality.2. The City of Chicago is committed to promoting transparency,openness and accountability in government.3.
He assured them that his government “is committed to takingforward the program of reforms and liberalization we initiatedover a decade ago”.4. The Bank is committed to carrying out this major project witheffective governance and sound financial management.5. We are committed to delivering innovative safety productsand programs with unmatched quality, superior technology,22and cost-effective solutions, while maintaining environmentalresponsibility.6. Government is strongly committed to strengthening businesseswith appropriate supporting policies and financial assistance.7.
The very same governments that professed their faith in theproperty-owning democracy were also committed to fightinginflation.17. COMPENSATIONCOMPENSATION – n. вознаграждение; амер.жалование, зарплата; возмещение, компенсацияCompensation should reward leaders according to theirability to develop more leaders. → Вознаграждениедолжнобытьинструментомпоощренияруководителей за их способность воспитывать новыхруководителей.1. An executive compensation strategy always carries risk, whichshould be meticulously identified and addressed.2. The public thinks teachers are underpaid but that increasedcompensation should be tied to improved teaching and learning.3. To strengthen accountability, all aspects of CEO compensationshould be voted on by shareholders on an annual basis.4.
Compensation should be tied to performance in order to link theincentives of executives and other employees with long-termvalue creation.5. When a business wants to acquire a leader it offers a compensationpackage higher than what its competitor is paying to lure theperson away.6. Depositors who put their money in the Medici Bank were given23a compensation for risking their money. In other words, it wascredit, but with the interest payment discretely concealed.18.
CONCEPTCONCEPT – n. понятие, идея, концепция; принципIn this article, we shall try to understand the basic concept of fiscal policy, fiscal policy tools and objectives indetail. → В этой статье мы попытаемся разобратьсяс ключевым понятием «фискальная политика», инструментами фискальной политики и ее целями.1. The “margin of production” is a key concept in economics, yetyou won’t find it in “principles of economics” textbooks.2. Exchange is a pervasive concept in everyday life, affectingphenomena as diverse as interpersonal relationships and markettransactions.3. Scarcity is the concept of finite resources in a world of infiniteneeds and wants.4. When the concept of economic income is applied to the householdbudget, the term usually refers to the amount of income thatremains after all essentials have been purchased for the period.5.
500 years ago, the most powerful society in South America — theInca Empire – had no real concept of money.6. As financial reporting involves significant professional judgmentsby accountants, these concepts and principles ensure that theusers of financial information are not mislead by the adoption ofaccounting policies and practices that go against the spirit of theaccountancy profession.2419.
CRITICALCRITICAL – a. решающий, определяющий, важнейший; основной, главный; существенный, значительный; имеющий большое (принципиальное)значение;The critical question is, of course, whether De Soto’stheory works in practice. → Важнейшим вопросом,безусловно, является вопрос о том, работает ли теория Де Сото на практике.1. The poverty rate in Chile has gone down from around 50% to13% now.
So this has been really a huge success and the pensionreform has been a critical element in this.2. The failure of merger talks that might have saved the Bank ofthe United States was a critical moment in the history of theDepression.3. Pascal and his friend Pierre de Fermât had been toying withproblems of probability for many years, but for the evolution ofinsurance, this was to be a critical point.4. It was his fellow member of the Royal Society, Edmund Halley,who made the critical break-through using data supplied to theSociety.5. Though it is far from clear that Keynes was correct in hisinterpretation of investors’ behavior, he was certainly thinkingalong the right lines, for there is no question that the biases ofindividuals play a critical role in generating volatility in financialmarkets.6.
Companies in non-financial industries are seen as less systemicallyimportant to the economy as a whole and less critical to thelivelihood of the consumer.2520. CURRENTCURRENT – a. нынешний, текущий, современный,действующий, существующийThe current price of a bond is the amount investors areprepared to pay for it, which in practice will be somewhere between the bid price and the asking price. →Текущая цена облигации - это сумма, которую готовы заплатить инвесторы и которая на практике будетсредней между ценой покупателя и ценой продавца.1.