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temptation for journalists - and not the most dangerous one - to attend conferences. Before you even know it, suddenly here you are with a microphone in front of you - at this point you take a deep breath - it's too late, there's no going back. It happens, but some conferences do have a pleasant aftertaste. It always depends on the audience, sometimes on the place, and at other times on the atmosphere or an event. On Friday the audience was wonderful and the place fascinating; there was an excellent

VOCABULARY building or revision The words listed below have been collected from about 30 TOEIC tests 1. Office - business File, folder filing cabinet paper clip clerk desk keyboard software to fill in a form a pay slip a paycheque a payroll book-keeping = accountancy a pay rise a promotion a pension plan Benefits to retire, retirement to major in chemistry a resume, a C.V. a briefcase a shipment = a dispatch a deadline an opening = a market niche peers, colleagues, mate to vacate an office a bargain

Financial psychology Fair dues Employees sniff out unfairness when money is involved IF YOU can count your money you don’t have a billion dollars, opined Jean Paul Getty, an oil magnate. You may feel peeved for other reasons, too. A study published this month in the journal Psychological Science reveals that employees’ perceptions of how fairly they are being rewarded depend on whether they are getting bonuses in the form of goods or money. Sanford De Voe of the University of Toronto and Sheena Iyengar

International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.[4][5] In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. According to the Nobel Prize Committee, the prize was given for Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic concentration

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Contents Part One: Haunted 4 8 The Manor by Julie Cros The Strange Legend of Jean by Catherine Gilant Part Two: Crimes of Passion 11 12 14 16 Cannibalism by Melissa Pinto Ferreira Italian Pasta by Louise Magué A dangerous meeting by Sarah Ouanfouf Unhappy birthday by Magali Doireau Part Three: Exotic Tales 18 20 22 Holidays by Samia Bouachaïb Convict by Destiny by Vaïté Corin The Color Crew by Sabrina Biddouri Part Four: Stress 24 26 28 To Fail Or To Succeed? by Julie Voinet Mysterious

mould and carries out a first operation of stamping for producing cupels. 2) Stamping and drawing out. Cupels are performed on a drawing out press where successive operations of stamping and drawing out are used to get a suitable heigh. The bottom is shaped to form a dome so as to resist to the interior pression. Stamping : operation which consists to shape a piece of metal between a hollow form called matrix and a pattern. Drawing out : operation which consists to let the building piece

The store was created in 1991 by Hervé Blanc. It used to be called “Maxi Fouille” until the beginning of this year when it changed its name for “CENTRAKOR”. During this training period, my job was mainly to sell. When there were not many customers, I was dealing with storage solutions, that is say I was trying to think how to promote the products by improving the display. I. Presentation of the company a. Activity sector It is a retail store that does not sell any food

-sans-exportation O'Hehir, A. (2011). The gas industry attacks an Oscar nominee. Globe and Mail, 3. schiste, A.-G. (2011). Iris-Recherche. Récupéré sur Iris-Recherche: http://www.iris-recherche.qc.ca/publications/gaz_de_schiste_une_filiere_ecologique.pdf Séguin, R. (2011). Former Quebec environment board members slam shale gas. Globe and Mail. The gas industry attacks an Oscar nominee In a self-destructive P.R. move, lobbyists urge Oscar to shun the scruffy activist documentary "Gasland"

session. As usual, the meeting has provided Beijing an opportunity to highlight the past year’s successes and lay out the problems that lie ahead. On the surface at least, China has shown remarkable resilience in the face of global economic crisis. It has posted enviable gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates while keeping factories running (if at a loss) and workers employed. But the economic crisis has exposed the inefficiencies of China’s export-dependent economic model, and the government has