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My father is a programmer and he works in（）
A . computer
B . computers
C . a computer
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Present and market your case in a（）way.
A . positive
B . possible
C . previous
D . private
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（）links all suppliers and customers as a chain in a certain product and service.
A . contract
B . Business agreement
C . supply chain
D . network
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Which part provides for transverse control and positioning of a boom in a conventional yard and stay system（）.
A . Guy
B . Shroud
C . Spider
D . Topping lift
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The safety of the port should（）in respect of a vessel properly manned and equipped，and navigated and handled without negligence and in accordance with good seamanship.
A . be watched
B . be seen
C . be viewed
D . be inspected
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he oil（）in a source bed, and a marine shale.
A . dominates
B . originates
C . terminates
D . fascinate
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But in schools science is often presented in a dry and uninteresting
manner.
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In a sentence, emphasize nouns, verbs, adjectives, and some adverbs, pronouns and conjunctions.
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In the latter half of the 16th century, a form of drama arose in France called “French Light and Shadow”, which caused a great sensation when it was staged in Paris and Marseilles.
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But in schools science is often presented in a dry and uninteresting manner.
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判断正误： Proficient in English and Mandarin is a must.
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观看视频，作出判断Dragon (龙)is a noble, authoritative and prosperous symbol in China while it is a evil and fierce monster in the West.
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What does GLOW in the expression a glow in your eye and a song in your heart imply?
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Which of the below banks tops the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) volume ranking globally?
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A definition in writing should be clear and objective.
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In the 1970s and 1980s she starred in several popular films and she was also a very successful singer.
A．在 20 世纪 70 年代至 80 年代期间，她主演了许多广受欢迎的影片，同时她还是位非常成功的歌手。
B．在 20 世纪 70 年代至 80 年代期间，她主演了几部电影。
C．在 20 世纪 70 年代至 80 年代期间，她成为了成功的歌手。
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This is a room in Joan's house. There is a bed, a table and some chairs in it. There's a glass and some books on the table. Joan is in the room. Her father and mother are at the school. They all work hard.
What's on the table？
A．A glass.
B．Some books.
C．A glass and some books.
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They made a fire in the open air and cooked a meal over it. ______ was made in the open air and a meal ______ over it.
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[1]and [r]function in a minimal pair of
A．lid and rid.
B．lad and red.
C．peel and pear.
D．all of the above.
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The first As an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions, Francois von Hurter spent a lot of time in airport lounges, where he' d often set aside the latest deal calculations in favor of a good mystery fiction read. So when he retired in 1998 after 25 years as a dealmaker, instead of joining legions of ex-bankers on extended vacations in exotic locales, yon Hurter committed himself and some hard-earned capital to his next business venture: He launched London-based Bitter Lemon Press, a publishing company specializing in reprinting in English mystery novels he' d grown to love.
These are not the usual hard-boiled Raymond Chandler imitations found in some bookstores and at airport lounges. The works, written originally in German, French, Spanish and Italian, offer social criticism and a slice of culture with the who-done-it, according to Von Hurter, who likened some of Bitter Lemon's titles to travel fiction. The books, translated into English for the first time, take readers to locales like Mexico City, Munich and Havana. "I'd always go to bookstores in countries where I can read" the language, 58-year old von Hurter told Reuters while in New York this month to promote the company. In fact, he admits to making sure that, whenever possible, his U.S. flights went through Minneapolis, which has one of his favorite second-hand bookstores.
Von Hurter, born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, and a graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, is not the only Wall Street veteran financing Bitter Lemon Press. His brother Frederic von Hurter, a former commodities trader at Cargill, the Minneapolis food giant, and Laurence Colchester, a former economist at Citibank, are partners. Though the trio speaks French, Greek, German and Italian, they employ translators to bring the books to life in English.
Francois yon Hurter would not detail how much of the groups' s own money they put into Bitter Lemon. Bitter Lemon has published six books in Britain and has plans for five rifles in the next six months or so as part of its launch in the United States. One such title, "Thumbprint", is a mystery written by Friedrich Glauser, who was born in Vienna in 1896 and has been referred to as a Swiss Simenon—a reference to the noted Belgian mystery writer known for his French detective Maigret. "Thumbprint", translated from German, has been one of the Bitter Lemon's most popular books, selling 5,000 copies. Other Bitter Lemon titles include Gunter Ohnemus' "The Russian Passenger", the story of a cab driver who gets entangled with the Russian Mafia that has been translated from German, and "The Snowman" by Jorg Fauser, a German author born in 1944 who died in 1987. "Fauser was one of the romantic heroes of post-war German literature, a friend of Charles Bukowski... he is now being rediscovered," news magazine Der Spiegel noted in July, responding to a biography of Fauser published this summer.
As a banker for First Boston, known today as Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley, Francois von Hurter worked not only in New York but London and Saudi Arabia. Among other deals, he had a hand in Seagram Co Ltd' s purchase of MCA Inc. and Coca-Cola Co.'s purchase of Columbia Pictures. And while the players are different, book publishing has some similarities to Wall Street's merger business. Like a company put up for sale, a book needs a specific market and needs to have potential for growth. "You have to put together a business plan ... negotiate with suppliers like printers, a sales force and distributors. You need to apply the same marketing savvy to decide how to position the book," he said.
What is different about this latest venture, though, is that the hours spent in the office seem to race by much more rapidly." In a way, the hardest part of the second career, is that it creates such enthusiasm that you tend never to turn off," he said. "The line between yo
A．English mystery novels written by London-based writers.
B．Mystery novels which offer social criticism and a slice of culture, written originally not in English.
C．Travel fiction which take readers to locales like Mexico City, Munich and Havana.
D．Hard-boiled mystery novels translated into English for the first time.
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A future of temporary networks would seem to run counter to the wave of mergers sweeping the global economy. The headlines of the business press tell the story, "Compaq buys Digital"; "WorldCom buys MC1"; "Citibank merges with Travelers"; "Daimler-Benz acquires Chrysler" Yet when we look beneath the surface of all merger and acquisition activity, we see signs of a counter-phenomenon: the disintegration of the large corporation.
Twenty-five years ago, one in five US workers was employed by a Fortune 500 company. Today, the ratio has dropped to less than one in 10. Large companies are far less vertically integrated than they were in the past and rely more and more on outside suppliers to produce components and provide services. While big companies control ever larger flows of cash, they are exerting less and less direct control over actual business activity. They are, you might say, growing hollow.
Even within large corporations, decisions are increasingly being pushed to lower levels. Workers are rewarded not for efficiently carrying out orders but for figuring out what needs to be done and doing it. Many large industrial companies have broken themselves up into numerous independent units that transact business with one another almost as if they were separate companies.
What underlies this trend？ The answers lie in the basic economics of organizations. Business organizations are, in essence, mechanisms for co-ordination. They exist to guide the flow of work, materials, ideas and money, and the form. they take is strongly affected by the co-ordination technologies available. When it is cheaper to conduct transactions internally, within the bounds of a corporation, organizations grow larger, but when it is cheaper to conduct them externally, with independent entities in the open market, organizations stay small or shrink.
The co-ordination technologies of the industrial era—the train and the telegraph, the car and the telephone, the mainframe. computer and the fax machine—made internal transactions not only possible but advantageous. Companies were able to manage large organizations centrally, which provided them with economies of scale in manufacturing, marketing, distribution and other activities. It made economic sense to control many different functions and businesses directly and to hire the legions of administrators and supervisors needed to manage them. Big was good.
But with the introduction of powerful personal computers and broad electronic networks— the coordination technologies of the 21st century—the economic equation changes. Because information can be shared instantly and inexpensively among many people in many locations, the value of centralized decision-making and bureaucracy decreases. Individuals can manage themselves, co-ordinating their efforts through electronic links with other independent parties. Small becomes good.
In one sense, the new co-ordination technologies enable us to return to the pre-industrial organizational model of small, autonomous businesses. But there is one crucial difference: electronic networks enable these microbusinesses to tap into the global reservoirs of information, expertise and financing that used to be available only to large companies. The small companies enjoy many of the benefits of the big without sacrificing the leanness, flexibility and creativity of the small.
In the future, as communications technologies advance and networks become more efficient, the shift to e-lancing promises to accelerate. Should this happen, the dominant business organization of the future may not be a stable, permanent corporation but rather an elastic network that might sometimes exist for no more than a day or two. We will enter the age of the temporary company.
Why does the author say "the big companies are growing hollow" ？
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Surfing is a thrilling and dangerous activity in w...
Surfing is a thrilling and dangerous activity in which a person
balances on a board and rides the surface of a big, crash ocean wave. 【S1 ______.
Channel surfing is a bit different. In this activity a person sits on a couch
and pushes the button of a television remote-control devices many times a
minute check and recheck all the channels. In the United States, channel 【S2】______.
surfing is by far the more popular sport. When television first replaced
radio, in the 1950s. channel surfing was known. Back then, there were 【S3】______.
only a few stations. Viewers had their favorite shows and watched it 【S4】______.
devotedly all the way through. In fact, studies showed that when a family
sat down to watch a favorite program at 7 p. m. , they stayed with the
same channel rest of the evening. With the coming of the cable television. 【S5】______.
dozens of channels now offer a great variety of featured films, situation 【S6】______.
comedies, news, weather, talk, science shows, documentaries, and
advertising. Facing with so many choices, viewers often become quiet and 【S7】______.
feel a need to check, in all the other stations. 【S8】______.
Some studies show that men m a unique U.S. household usually want 【S9】______.
to hold the remote control and surf the channel: women usually like to
choose one program and watch through. 【S10】______.
【S1】
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Economists make a distinction between an increase in supply and an increase in quanti
是
否
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Prospective lenders to the buyer in an Mergers and Acquisitions deal want to see projections on what basis？（)（在并购交易中潜在贷方希望从买方那里看到基于什么基础的预测？)
A、Combined companies, on a taxable cash flow basis(合并后的公司，以应税现金流为基础)
B、Combined companies, after synergies and accounting adjustments(合并后的公司，经过协同增效和会计调整)
C、Buyer, with seller functioning as operating subsidiary(买方，卖方作为运营子公司)
D、Combined companies, on a net present value basis with synergies(合并后的公司，以协同效应的净现值为基础)
