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(отдельные/некоторые) individuals who have been able to take on a
multitude (множество) of roles in their organizations of that they stayed quite
(довольно) a long time. And they became valuable assets (ценным активом)
to their companies. So if that’s what you want with your current employees
then you need to start planning.
Exercise 101. Fill in the missing words and translate the words in bold into
English.
proactive on the furlough Apparently
employees sweat search
Obviously meticulous support
the top of my persistent accept
1. I doubt that his ……employee will be…… in March, as her courses finish in
4 months.
2. ……., only the most industrious ……..will attend this marketing conference
at the City Hall which begins at 12.00 on Friday.
3. Don’t …….it! Casey is on it! So, she is going to …….for all of the low paying
jobs in the advertising.
4. ……., Richard’s …….son is going to apply immediately, as he has been on
the furlough and cannot …………his fiancée.
5. Off …………head, their ……….customers will not ………this offer, as they
do not want to consider any menial jobs.
Exercise 105. Read and discuss the story.
THE FOUNDER OF FEDEX ONCE SAVED THE COMPANY BY
TAKING ITS LAST $5,000 AND TURNING IT INTO $32,000 BY
GAMBLING IN VEGAS
The man is Frederick W. Smith who is the founder and current CEO of
FedEx. In 1971, Smith took his personal fortune of around $4 million and
raised around an additional $90 million to found a delivery company structured
such that it could potentially deliver packages overnight to anywhere in the
world. This is something that, at that time, had never been done. Smith had
first outlined how such a company would operate in a 1962 paper he wrote
while at Yale University. The paper was written for an economics class and
was specifically on an “overnight delivery service in a computer information
age”.
Unfortunately, three years after the company began, thanks largely to rapidly
rising fuel costs, Federal Express was on the verge of bankruptcy, losing over
$1 million a month, with no one willing to give them any additional loans nor
any investors interested in contributing capital.
At its low point, all the company had was $5000 to its name, which wasn’t
enough to continue operating as their planes needed fuel and that wouldn’t

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