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Exercise 450. Fill in the correct translation.
to demand
demanding
on the labour market
to be a good fit for the position
to be the best fit for the job
to succeed in the job
to be eager (to)
to take on a project
to keep projects within the planned timeline
to be a stickler for due dates
to miss a deadline
to do my/his/her due diligence
to be good at/skilled at
to voice ideas/thoughts
to ask for help
to feel burnout with the workload
to keep balance between work and a personal life
Exercise 453. Read and discuss the facts. Exciting Facts About EBay
 eBay was created by an Iranian-American computer programmer called
Pierre Omidyar, on September 3, 1995.
 At the age of 28, he was working on designing code for an online auction
website originally called Auction Web. Auction Web was a side project,
for fun alongside his everyday job. It wasn’t until the website was getting
too much traffic that he decided to launch as a business and re-branding it
as eBay.
 The first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. The
broken laser pointer was an item laying around Omidyar’s house, that he
thought he would use to test out the site. In the first week, he listed it as
$1 and to no surprise, it didn’t sell. So he listed it again for the same price
for a second week. This time a bidding war took off and it sold for $14.83.
He contacted the seller to check that they realized what they had bid on,
and it turned out they were a collector of broken laser pens!
 Thanks to eBay, a new species was discovered. In 2006 a type of sea
urchin was listed after being found in the Pacific Ocean. This is not the
first time an item has been listed in the wrong category, or identified as
something it is not. A British scientist and Zoologist named Simon
Coppard came across the urchin and from the photo recognized that this
was something new. At the time, Coppard was working with The

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