Английский для социологов. Астафурова Т.Н. - 80 стр.

     3. We are engaged (7) ... many programmes which help the
        community. For example, schoolchildren benefit (8)... the
        training programmes we run, and from the equi pment we
        have provided them (9).…
     4. Our management is strongly opposed (10) ... expenditure on
        social programmes and objects (11) .... people putting pressure
        (12) ... the company to contribute more (13)… society.
     5. We pay li p service to the ideaof social responsibility but really
        we are only interested (14) ... making a profit. Nothing must
        distract us (15) ... that purpose.
     c) Idiomatic uses of run in the long- run
     Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meaning.
Replace the words in italics with verbs from the list and make any
other necessary changes.
      run up        run up against         run down     run through
                    run out of             run out
     1. We won’t meet that urgent order unless we speed up production.
        We have little time left.
     2. Can we review the plan for the sales campaign, please?
     3. We won’t be able to launch the product in February. The
        Design Department have met some technical problems.
     4 Our firm is gradually reducing its marketing operation in the
        Far East.
     5. This contract comes to an end next month, then we’ll have to
        renew it.
     6. They have incurred so many debts that they’ll have to close
        down.


       2. IS BIG BUSINESS ANTAGONISTIC TO NATURE?
                 (ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS)

      Can Business be Green? And how important is the role of
business in protecting or destroying the environment? Does the
international business community really have a responsibility to sustain
the natural resources it commercially exploits? Or is that a matter for
the world’s politicians to sort out?



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