Could the bad olddays of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cutsin March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up fromless than $10 last December. Th...
The world is goingthrough the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. Theprocess sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emergingcountries with unsurpassed might. Ma...
When I decided toquit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a partof a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked myprofessional progress prom...
Why do so manyAmericans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society ofNewspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organizationis deep into a long self-analys...
Specialization canbe seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation ofscientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units,one man could continue to handle the ...
A great deal ofattention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the divisionof the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that dividedoes exist today. My wife and I ...
Aimlessness hashardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity and social harmonyare the envy of the United States and Europe. But increasingly the Japanese areseeing a decline of the trad...
Ifambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—wealth,distinction, control over one’s destiny—must be deemedworthy of the sacrifices made on ambition’s behalf. If the tradition ofambition ...
PART ADirections:Write an email to the editor of your local newspaper, stating your point of view on reading extensively.预测范文Dear Editors,I have been reading your newspaper for many years with great ...
PART ADirections:Suppose you are a college student, write an email to apply for a student loan.预测范文Dear Sir or Madam,I am a third year student majoring in history at the Beijing Normal University and ...