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  1. I think businesses are becoming more open to external influences.
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  1. I think businesses are becoming more open to external influences.
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  1. Companies are consulting customers more and more before making their business decisions.
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  1. Companies are consulting customers more and more before making their business decisions.
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  1. Another influence is that concerns about the environment will force manufactures to extend product life cycles.
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  1. Another influence is that concerns about the environment will force manufactures to extend product life cycles.
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  1. Many societies are much more fluent and democratic.
     Fluent (adj): (of a person) able to speak a language easily and well, or (of a language) spoken easily and without many pauses
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  1. Many societies are much more fluent and democratic.
     Fluent (adj): (of a person) able to speak a language easily and well, or (of a language) spoken easily and without many pauses
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  1. The teams will be disbanded and new ones formed.

 To disband: to stop being a group

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  1. The teams will be disbanded and new ones formed.

 To disband: to stop being a group

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  1. More and more people see work as simply one part of their lifestyle.
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  1. More and more people see work as simply one part of their lifestyle.
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  1. Businesses are having to compete for staff instead of being able to choose among a lot of applicants.
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  1. Businesses are having to compete for staff instead of being able to choose among a lot of applicants.
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  1. Management styles were almost certainly continue to change.
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  1. Management styles were almost certainly continue to change.
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  1. The traditional emphasis of business was manufacturing.
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  1. The traditional emphasis of business was manufacturing.
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  1. More and more people are becoming self-employed.
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  1. More and more people are becoming self-employed.
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  1. Let’s open it up for discussion.

 To open sth up [SITUATION]: to improve a situation by making it less limited.

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  1. Let’s open it up for discussion.

 To open sth up [SITUATION]: to improve a situation by making it less limited.

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  1. There is only a limited number of places.
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  1. There is only a limited number of places.
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  1. The Science of the Small has some big implication.
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  1. The Science of the Small has some big implication.
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  1. There’s no doubt that nanotechnology promises so large for civilization.
     Civilization (un) [PROCESS]: the process of educating a society so that its culture becomes more developed.
     To promise [BE EXPECTED]: promise to be good, exciting, etc: If sth promises to be good, exciting, etc. it is expected to be good, exciting, etc.
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  1. There’s no doubt that nanotechnology promises so large for civilization.
     Civilization (un) [PROCESS]: the process of educating a society so that its culture becomes more developed.
     To promise [BE EXPECTED]: promise to be good, exciting, etc: If sth promises to be good, exciting, etc. it is expected to be good, exciting, etc.
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  1. Society often gets the wrong idea about its capabilities.
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  1. Society often gets the wrong idea about its capabilities.
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  1. Most teaching staff make their lecture notes available online.
     Teaching (n) [JOB]: the job of being a teacher
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  1. Most teaching staff make their lecture notes available online.
     Teaching (n) [JOB]: the job of being a teacher
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  1. There will be a conference here next summer on using the web for academic research.
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  1. There will be a conference here next summer on using the web for academic research.
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  1. The university has a world-renowned school of archaeology.
     World-renowned (adj): famous all over the world in a particular area of activity.
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  1. The university has a world-renowned school of archaeology.
     World-renowned (adj): famous all over the world in a particular area of activity.
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  1. Successful applicants will work with a large team of researchers.
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  1. Successful applicants will work with a large team of researchers.
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  1. Higher numbers of patients were infected than during previous outbreaks of illness.
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  1. Higher numbers of patients were infected than during previous outbreaks of illness.