Their investment turned out to be a failure and the manager was accused of ______ his
A.accomplishing
B.neglecting
C.ignoring
D.inserting
A.accomplishing
B.neglecting
C.ignoring
D.inserting
A.sophisticated
B.complex
C.complicated
D.intricate
The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of ______.
A.providing financial support overseas
B.preventing foreign capital's control
C.building industrial infrastructure
D.accepting foreign investment
I'm not sure whether I can gain any profit from the investment, so I can't make a (an) ______ promise to help you.
A.accurate
B.defined
C.definite
D.sure
The recovery strategy by Ahold’s management includes _____
[A] avoiding the next accounting scandal
[B] diverting investment to other fields
[C] issuing rights to more retailers
[D] selling the retailers with poor performance
A.Ownership of a majority of the equity shares
B.Ability to exercise control
C.Existence of significant influence
D.Exposure to variable returns from involvement with the investee32.
The passage tells us that______.
A.sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B.advertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don't need
C.the buying motives of consumers are controlled by advertisements
D.fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
The passage tells us that—一.
A. sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B. advertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don't need
C. the buying motives of consumers are controlled by advertisement
D. fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
Reexamine the capital investment decision in the disposable diaper industry (Example 15. 3) from the point of view of an incumbent firm. If P&G or Kimberly-Clark were lo expand capacity by
building three new plants, they would not need to spend $ 60 million on R&D before start-up. How does this aleck the NPV calculations in Table 15. 5? Is the investment profitable at a discount rate of 12 percent?
One recently employed graduate says that she is receiving a great deal of valuable training from the company. "This means that I will be a loyal employee,"she says, "And it also means that the company will want to keep me. I am an important investment for them. So the policy is a good one because it benefits both the employer and the employee. "
Recently, however, attitudes towards lifelong employment are beginning to change. Employees are slowly beginning to accept the idea that lifelong employment is not always in their best interest and that changing firms can have career advantages.
The purpose of lifelong employment is to______
A.adjust the needs of the company to its employees
B.make employees loyal to their company
C.select the best skilled young employees
D.keep the skilled staff satisfied
What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To contrast travel by steamship and stagecoach.
B.To criticize the level of public debt in nineteenth century in Canada.
C.To describe the introduction of steamships in Canada.
D.To show how Canada surpassed the United States in transportation improvements.
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something had gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the following warning: For all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a device that can take the place of fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
The main purpose of this passage is______.
A.to look back to the early days of computers
B.to explain what technical problems may occur with computers
C.to warn against a mentally lazy attitude towards computers
D.to discourage unnecessary investment in computers