New York has an energy of its own, and that late summer evening, I truly understood why. All around me the city was alive with activity as everyone headed in different directions. The Big Apple’s fabled ambition, wealth, and power were on full display, in the sleek cars stopped by the curb, the bright windows of the bustling restaurants, and the studied nonchalance of stylish young people out on the town. As I cut through the financial district, I passed the Twin Towers, shimmering in the streetlights.
Then came the next morning. Even before I heard what was happening, it was clear that something was terribly wrong: there was an unfamiliar edge of desperation to the city’s usual hectic pace. At a friend’s house, uneasy but unsure why, I turned on the TV news. Within seconds, I saw one, then another, plane crash into the World Trade Center. Time stopp
A. in good order
B. full of excitement or hurried activity
C. in a terrible way
D. in rapidity
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Route to big delivery savings
There are few areas left within the world’s largest businesses where one close look can deliver instant savings of 1 per cent of sales. For Rhodia, the chemicals arm of French conglomerate Rh6ne-Poulenc, scrutiny of the company’s transport costs in the UK led to just such savings. Management consultants A.T. Kearney were commissioned to review the company’s operations. They scoured order books, invoices and transport logs at the company’s fourteen UK sites. some transport they could not account for at all Surprising as it may seem, there were simply no records.
A.T. Kearney’s initial survey found that transport accounted for 10 per cent of the company’s traceable spending in the UK, and that during a 12-month period, 235 different hauliers had moved products for the company. The company were also running a 30-strong fleet of their own. (9) In a more positive light, though, th
One of the political issues we hear a lot about lately is campaign finance reform. The people who are calling for (21) usually want the government to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates and their supporters can spend.
One reason that reform is (22) for is that it costs so much to run for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort (23) money. The incumbents (those already in office) have (24) time to do their jobs since they must attend so many fund raising events.
Another (25) is the fear that candidates will be owned or controlled by the "special interest groups" that contribute to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the (26) .
On the (27) side are those who caution that just because you call something "reform," doesn’t mean it’s really (28) . They (29) that our fight to freedom of
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B. more
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