Enjoy Rendering!: Сборник текстов для перевода и реферирования. Батурина С.А. - 10 стр.

including, possibly, male-type sexual preferences. Previous research                                       Omnipresent
has provided some evidence for this idea. Lesbians, for instance, are
more accurate throwers of objects such as darts than straight women. In              Bengt Ryden, chief executive of the Stockholm Stock Exchange
this they resemble straight men in a way that has nothing to do with          (SSE), calls it an "agreement to merge", but he is not fooling anybody,
sexual preference. And tissues other than the brain's may be affected,        OM Gruppen, one of the SSE'S listed companies, has taken over Mr Ry-
too. On average, lesbians ring fingers that are longer than their index       den's venerable exchange itself, OM Gruppen's startling rise holds les-
fingers, a feature that is typical of men but not of heterosexual women.      sons for other small financial centres: it has reinvented itself to bring a
In that context, a difference in the blink of an eye is no surprise at all.   different line of work to a city in danger of losing its traditional finan-
                                                                              cial businesses.
        1. Vocabulary Notes:                                                         Like its new subsidiary, OM Gruppen is in the business of run-
        1) blink – мигать, закрывать глаза                                    ning an exchange – several, in fact. These include Sweden's derivatives
        2) startle – пугать, поразить                                         exchange, OM, its sister exchange in London, OMLX, and PULPEX, a
        3) masculine – мужской, мужеподобный                                  wood-pulp exchange. But the firm likes to compare itself with other
        4) vigour – сила, мощь, живость, энергичность                         Nordic companies such as Ericsson and Nokia. OM Gruppen sees its
        5) prime – зд. воздействовать                                         chief business as designing "transactions technology" to make markets
        6) wire up – связывать, соединять                                     run more smoothly. This might include writing computer programs to
        7) straight and gay – гетеросексуальные люди и гомосексуа-            handle securities trading, designing efficient communications networks
листы                                                                         to route "buy" and "sell" orders, and building electronic clearing and
        8) default – бездействие, пассивность, неявка, отсутствие             settlement systems.
        9) fetus – плод, зародыш                                                     The company was founded in 1983 by Olof Stenhammar, a
        10) surge – скачок, колебание                                         Swedish options trader who worked in Chicago in the 1970s. Mr Sten-
        11) lull – перерыв, затишье                                           hammer's original plan was to set up a Swedish version of the Chicago
        12) tissue – биол. ткань                                              Board Options Exchange (CBOE) to trade options on Swedish com-
        13) ring finger – безымянный палец                                    pany shares. The venture got off me ground quickly and OM Gruppen
        14) index finger – указательный палец                                 soon diversified into technology sales.
                                                                                     Last year that business matured. OM Gruppen built a new elec-
      2. Answer the following questions.                                      tronic trading system for the Australian Stock Exchange, including an
      1) What observation has made some East London specialists               order-routing network to connect 60 Australian banks across three time
support the idea that homosexuality is an inborn characteristic rather        zones. It added the Athens Stock Exchange to its growing list of cli-
than acquired one?                                                            ents. And it won a contract to design technology for CalPX, the Cali-
      2) What exactly differs between the sexes startled by an unex-          fornian Power Exchange, which is set to become America's first elec-
pected noise?                                                                 tricity Exchange. OM Gruppen has already built and is running the
      3) What experiment was waged by Dr. Rahman and his col-                 world's two other electricity exchanges, both in Scandinavia. The com-
leagues ?                                                                     pany also has a nice sideline in selling back-office consultancy services
      4) What way does testosterone act?                                      to banks and brokers. Recently the firm bought Research & Trade, a
      5) What features are lesbians and straight women characterized by?      Swedish company that specialises in designing software to provide ac-
                                                                              cess to lots of electronic exchanges from a single computer screen.
        3. Make up a summary of the text.

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