Английский для социологов. Астафурова Т.Н. - 11 стр.

                   4. report back to
                   5. strike
                   6. come to
                   7. reinforce
                   8. withdraw
                   9. question
                  10. offer
                  11. diffuse
                  12. get
                  13. generate
                  14. transmit
                  15. pool
      b) Complete the sentences below using words from the following
list. Referring back to the article will help you with some of them.

       market              price               client           cost
       profit              quality             technology

     1. We’re a firmly .......... oriented company, so the bottom-line
        for us is not how big our market share is but how much
        money we’re going to make.
     2. Even at low prices inferior products won’t sell in such a ..........
        conscious market.
     3. The market’s far too .......... sensitive to stand an increase in
        service charges.
     4. We’re constantly forced to respond both to changing customer
        needs and to what our main competitors are doing in a ..........
        driven business such as this.
     5. The customer always comes first. We’re a very .......... centred
        company.
     6. In a .......... led business, such as ours, it’s vital to plough
        profits back into R.&.D.
     7. If the price of materials goes up any more, production will no
        longer be .......... effective.
      c) Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the words in the
table:

 agenda, agree, decisions, follow, opinion, partici pants, prepared,
 roposal, spontaneous, views, waste


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