Business Buzzwords through Thick and Thin2024-02-14Business buzzwords A Non-institution2024-02-14 Report a question What's wrong with this question? You cannot submit an empty report. Please add some details. 12345678910 Business buzzwords Greenhouse gas emissions Advanced Business English practice 10 multiple-choice questions If you log in, you will get the results via email. Category: business-advanced 1. Using ocean data collected by diving floats, U.S. climate scientists released a study Thursday that they said provides the ' .......... ' that ties man made greenhouse gas emissions to global warming. straw in the wind smoking gun red hand paper trail Category: business-advanced 2. There's a name for people who are able to identify the customer-grabbing, revenue-generating power in their particular job and maximize it at every possible opportunity — they're called .......... up-and-comers rainmakers go-getters lifesavers Category: business-advanced 3. For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion request for military operations and economic reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a .......... fund of $9.3 billion which Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases. slush petty pocket kitty Category: business-advanced 4. Recent versions of shareholder rights plans have contained what has been called .......... provision, which provides that only incumbent directors or their designated successors, so-called 'Continuing Directors', can redeem the rights. an 'on hand' an 'old hand' a 'dead hand' a 'right hand' Category: business-advanced 5. As a general guideline, an order may be cancelled if it is more than 30% .......... the market, depending upon where it has been routed to for execution, and you may receive a warning message when attempting to place a trade that fails a price reasonability check. up to off of outside away from Category: business-advanced 6. When I bought my seat on the exchange, if someone gave me an order, I took it to an order clerk, who called it down to the floor; the clerk wrote out the order ticket, gave it to a .......... dollar broker who had to be a member of the NYSE, who took it to the specialist's post, bought or sold the stock, and repeated the whole process back. ten five one two Category: business-advanced 7. If you are .......... to a given public securities issue, you will not be buying any shares through the public offering. unlisted unregistered unassigned unsubscribed Category: business-advanced 8. .......... follow trends, tips and gurus; they sometimes put on bull horns or a bearskin and try to swagger; you recognize them by their pitiful bleating when the market becomes volatile. Calves Goats Cubs Sheep Category: business-advanced 9. The failures of well known .......... retailers like Garden.com, Pets.com and discount retailer Value America have experts talking about the value of multi-channel retailing. pure-play down-play one-play fair-play Category: business-advanced 10. Recently, the SEC's Enforcement Division has signaled a change in philosophy from a reactive approach (i.e. investigations of individuals or companies were initiated after evidence of a possible violation) to ' .......... ' — pursuing investigations where it is not clear that a securities violation has occurred. wildcatting bloodhounding bird-dogging whale-watching Your score is The average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Restart quiz Author: Kovács Áron Share0