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optimism is not really justified and you should adopt a more ....... attitude. (a) really (b) realize (c) reality (d) realistic Q4 If you want to increase sales of a particular product, you must be sure that you are ....... the right customers. (a) aiming (b) directing (c) targeting (d) guiding Q5 The idea caught on very quickly and people were queuing up to buy the goods so that year the company's investment ....... substantial profits. (a) confirmed (b) yielded (c) harvested (d) maintained Q6

le fort engagement de l'Association envers ses principaux objectifs * construire, stabilité des marchés financiers robustes et un cadre réglementaire financier solide. Les acteurs de l’ISDA Since its inception, ISDA has pioneered efforts to identify and reduce the sources of risk in the derivatives and risk management business.Depuis sa création, l'ISDA a été le moteur des efforts pour identifier et réduire les sources de risque dans les dérivés et les entreprises de gestion des risques

“In Scotland, 12 cans of Irn-Bru are consumed every second and more than 50 per cent of sales are generated in the country.” Problematic: How can we explain IRN BRU’s Success and was it relevant to try to reach the Russian market? What should we think about the brand’s future international strategy? SUMMARY: I) From the XIX century to now on, a Scottish institution. A) A bit of History B) Irn Bru’s ID and image C) I.B.’s identity & brand territory in a glimpse II) A Scottish

On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games John A. List University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research The dictator game represents a workhorse within experimental economics, frequently used to test theory and to provide insights into the prevalence of social preferences. This study explores more closely the dictator game and the literature’s preferred interpretation of its meaning by collecting data from nearly 200 dictators across treatments that varied the action

frightening disease. This text , which seems to be the beginning of the story, the main character, Andrew Beckett, a young and brilliant lawyer , has been summoned by the senior partners of the firm where he is working and we attend their conversation which is quite weird and full of understatements and innuendoes. The interest of the text lies in two aspects : on the one hand , the way the senior partners lead the conversation and on the other hand how Andrew reacts to the news throughout the text. Indeed

Weil, and the authors’ response to the commentaries. It makes for a stimulating sequence, indeed! In their first article, Glouberman and Mintzberg take a broad view of the health care system and identify four aspects—care, cure, control, and community—that function to a large part independently and under different mindsets. They see that as one reason why it is so “enormously difficult” to control the overall system. In their second article, the authors focus on how closer coordination of the four

the economic development, the industrialization of a party of the world and the expansion of irrigated agriculture led to great impacts on water cycles. Global common resources have been washed up or polluted leading to dramatic situations on human societies. Indeed, scientific data confirmed the uneven access and distribution of fresh water at the global and local scale. According to the report of the United Nations Development Program of 2006, more than one billion of humans are denied their right

cerveau se développe In our early years our brains grow very fast as we learn language, writing, numbers, music, and how to coordinate movement. Dans nos premières années de vie, notre cerveau évolue très rapidement à mesure que nous apprenons le langage, l’écriture, les nombres, la musique et la coordination motrice. By the time we are teenagers, each neuron in our brain has connected to tens of thousands of other neurons, (Arrivés) A l’adolescence, chaque neurone de notre cerveau s’est connecté à

sequence of action steps to achieve some specific goal. La planification est la préparation d'une séquence d'étapes d'action pour atteindre un objectif spécifique. If you do it effectively, you can reduce much the necessary time and effort of achieving the goal. Si vous le faire efficacement, vous pouvez réduire de beaucoup le temps et les efforts nécessaires pour atteindre l'objectif. A plan is like a map. Un plan est comme une carte. When following a plan, you can always see how much you have progressed

international corporations full of desire to take advantage of the global marketplace. Many of those companies, instead of slow organic growth, choose a quicker way to expand their business – mergers and acquisitions. However, quicker not always means easier. Several research show that nearly 60 % of all mergers fail, frequently bringing companies from the top of the most successful firms’ list, to its bottom. Researchers attrib ute a considerable amount of this failures to the impacts of cultural differences