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Last month the U.S. Army, bumped favored defense contractor
L-3 Communications from a $ 4.6 billion contract to provide translators and
interpreters in Iraq. A new venture called Global Linguistic Solutions (GLS),
headed by retired Army Major General James (Spider) Marks and primarily formed
to bid on the contract, landed the job. The surprise caused L-3 shares to fall
nearly 6%; the company lowered its sales forecast this year by $ 500
million.
Winning the contract may be the easy part for GLS.
Luring interpreters to Iraq is another story. Job listings posted on L-3’s
website read like something out of a Tom Clancy thriller. Wanted. "Arabic
Linguist… Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace… Must be able to
live in a harsh environment." The pay isn’t mentioned, but L-3 recently offered
interpreters more than $175,000 annually to work in Iraq. Linguists usually
don’t carry weapons and are often called on to participate in raids and oth
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In a three-month period last year, two Brooklynites had to be cut out of their apartments and carried to hospital on stretchers designed for transporting small whales. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance(NAAFA) argues that it was not their combined 900kg bulk that made them ill. Obesity, according to NAAFA, is not bad for you. And, even if it was, there is nothing to be done about it, because genes dictate weight. Attempting to eat less merely slows metabolism, having people as chubby as ever.
This is the fatlash movement that causes America’s slimming industry so much pain. In his book Bin Fat Lies (Ballantine, 1996), Glenn Gaesser says that no study yet has convincingly shown that weight is an independent cause of health problems. Fatness does not kill people; things like hypertension, coronary heart diseases and cancer do. Michael Fumento, author of The Fat of the Land ( Viking, 1997), an anti-fatlash diatribe, compares Dr Gaesser’s logic wit
A. Americans’ caloric intake has dropped over the last few decades.
B. Many people who try to lose weight give up half way.
C. Americans are always aware of how much they eat.
D. Obesity does no harm to people’s health.
[单项选择]Last month Hansen Transmissions International, a maker of gearboxes for wind turbines, was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Nothing noteworthy about that, you might say, despite the jump in the share price on the first day of trading and the handsome gain since: green technology is all the rage, is it not But Hansen exemplifies another trend, too, which should prove every bit as durable: the rise of multinational companies from emerging economies. Its parent is Suzlon, an Indian fin that began life as a textile manufacturer, but is now among the world’s five leading makers of wind turbines. Along the way, Suzlon has acquired not only Hansen, originally Belgian, but also RE power, a German wind-energy firm, spending over $ 2 billion on the pair.
The world is now replete with Suzlons: global companies from emerging economies buying businesses in rich countries as well as in poorer places. Another Indian company, Tata Motors, looks likely to add to the list soon, by buying two gr
A. the acquisition by Tate Motors is different from that of Salons.
B. Indian companies are developing so fast that others can’t compare with them.
C. traditional economic theory doesn’t work in explaining the shift in economic power.
D. it’s hard to explain why there has been a shift in economic power.
