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- I think businesses are becoming more open to external influences.
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- I think businesses are becoming more open to external influences.
2
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- Companies are consulting customers more and more before making their business decisions.
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- Companies are consulting customers more and more before making their business decisions.
3
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- Another influence is that concerns about the environment will force manufactures to extend product life cycles.
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- Another influence is that concerns about the environment will force manufactures to extend product life cycles.
4
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- Many societies are much more fluent and democratic.
Fluent (adj): (of a person) able to speak a language easily and well, or (of a language) spoken easily and without many pauses
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- Many societies are much more fluent and democratic.
Fluent (adj): (of a person) able to speak a language easily and well, or (of a language) spoken easily and without many pauses
5
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- The teams will be disbanded and new ones formed.
To disband: to stop being a group
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- The teams will be disbanded and new ones formed.
To disband: to stop being a group
6
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- More and more people see work as simply one part of their lifestyle.
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- More and more people see work as simply one part of their lifestyle.
7
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- Businesses are having to compete for staff instead of being able to choose among a lot of applicants.
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- Businesses are having to compete for staff instead of being able to choose among a lot of applicants.
8
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- Management styles were almost certainly continue to change.
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- Management styles were almost certainly continue to change.
9
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- The traditional emphasis of business was manufacturing.
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- The traditional emphasis of business was manufacturing.
10
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- More and more people are becoming self-employed.
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- More and more people are becoming self-employed.
11
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- Let’s open it up for discussion.
To open sth up [SITUATION]: to improve a situation by making it less limited.
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- Let’s open it up for discussion.
To open sth up [SITUATION]: to improve a situation by making it less limited.
12
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- There is only a limited number of places.
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- There is only a limited number of places.
13
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- The Science of the Small has some big implication.
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- The Science of the Small has some big implication.
14
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- There’s no doubt that nanotechnology promises so large for civilization.
Civilization (un) [PROCESS]: the process of educating a society so that its culture becomes more developed.
To promise [BE EXPECTED]: promise to be good, exciting, etc: If sth promises to be good, exciting, etc. it is expected to be good, exciting, etc.
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- There’s no doubt that nanotechnology promises so large for civilization.
Civilization (un) [PROCESS]: the process of educating a society so that its culture becomes more developed.
To promise [BE EXPECTED]: promise to be good, exciting, etc: If sth promises to be good, exciting, etc. it is expected to be good, exciting, etc.
15
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- Society often gets the wrong idea about its capabilities.
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- Society often gets the wrong idea about its capabilities.
16
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- Most teaching staff make their lecture notes available online.
Teaching (n) [JOB]: the job of being a teacher
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- Most teaching staff make their lecture notes available online.
Teaching (n) [JOB]: the job of being a teacher
17
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- There will be a conference here next summer on using the web for academic research.
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- There will be a conference here next summer on using the web for academic research.
18
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- The university has a world-renowned school of archaeology.
World-renowned (adj): famous all over the world in a particular area of activity.
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- The university has a world-renowned school of archaeology.
World-renowned (adj): famous all over the world in a particular area of activity.
19
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- Successful applicants will work with a large team of researchers.
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- Successful applicants will work with a large team of researchers.
20
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- Higher numbers of patients were infected than during previous outbreaks of illness.
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- Higher numbers of patients were infected than during previous outbreaks of illness.
