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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 351.

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Hiring and Firing

Reading 2

1. monetary policy - кредитно-денежная политика

2. interest rate - ставка процента

3. lead to - приводить к каким-либо результатам; быть причиной

4. mortgage - ипотека, закладная; ипотечный кредит

5. repayment - уплата, платеж (по кредиту )
confident - уверенный

6. to buy something on credit - покупать в кредит

7. currency - валюта

8. exchange rate - обменный курс

9. to reduce - сокращать

10. to expand a business - расширять бизнес

11. frequently - часто встречающийся

12. impact - воздействие

13. purchase - покупка

14. national output - общий объем продукции, произведенной в данной стране. Совокупный продукт

15. sales - объем продаж

16. proportion - пропорция, доля, часть

17. to speed up - ускорять

laid off, fired

laid off is the more formal verb

a She was laid off.

b She was ordered to leave the factory immediately.

a They laid her off and They ordered her to leave the factory immediately are active.

She was laid off and She was ordered to leave the factory immediately are passive.

b They (the management of the company)

c She (Nicola Williams)

d Nicola Williams

e They put the emphasis on Nicola and what happened to her. The important information comes at the beginning of the sentence.

f It is omitted because it is unnecessary. We are not interested in who did the sacking so much as who was sacked.