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Market research informs you of what your competition is doing and   _________ it allows you to plan your strategy.

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___________ is currently Ms. Wonderle's first year working as our office's administrative assistant.

In 2006, the news agency Reuters withdrew from sale 920 pictures taken by a photographer because two images taken in Lebanon were .................. to have been digitally manipulated.

Something's just ____ up, so I'm afraid I won't be able to make it this afternoon.

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If you would like leather seats in your new car, you will be required to make an ------ payment.

United Parcel Service (UPS) believes that its employees should give the firm a fair day’s work for a fair’s day pay. The package delivery firm seems willing to give more than a fair’s day pay. But in (35) ____, UPS expects maximum output from its employees. Since 1920s, the firm’s industrial engineers have been studying every detail of every task (36) ____ by most UPS employees. From their studies have come time and motion standards that (37) ____ how those tasks are performed and how long they should take. Drivers, for example, are expected to walk to a customer’s door at a speed of exactly three feet per second. They are told to knock as soon as they get there, rather than (38) ____ time looking for a doorbell. Work engineers are (39) ____ riding with drivers, timing everything from stops at traffic lights, to wait at customers’ doorway, to stairway climbs, to coffee break. And they are not (40) ____ to pointing out the occasional inefficiency. Additionally, supervisors ride with the least good drivers, noting how they work and constantly (41) ____ them until their work is up to standard. The (42) ____of all this work engineering is efficiency, and UPS has been called one of the most efficient companies anywhere. It's also a highly profitable company. Most drivers take the regimentation in stride: many show (43) ____ in meeting the UPS standards each day. Others, however, feel that they are constantly being pushed, that it is impossible for them to (44) ____ at work. UPS officials claim that the standards provide accountability. And, they say, employees who work according to UPS standards should feel less tired at the end of the day.
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According to the HR representative, employee turnover reduced _________

_____ the book, please return it to me

The book would have been perfect ................... ending.

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A wildlife expert is scheduled to give a talk on the  ____________  that the factory has had on the surrounding forest.

At 4 o’clock Mr. Hutchinson still had some ............... to do in the garden.

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World Photo is currently on the lookout for ------- and knowledgeable wildlife photographers.

 It was late, so we decided .............. a taxi home.

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Arnby Cable  __________  €25.00 to all Internet subscribers after the weeklong service interruption.

Although he ................. to Ernest Hemingway, I think his books are unique.

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The children are playing .................... in the schoolyard.

During the flood, army helicopters came and tried to evacuate ............. injured.

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--------- restructuring several departments within the company, the majority of the problems with miscommunication have disappeared.

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The shipment is   ___________ to arrive on Wednesday; however, if it is late, customer delivery times will be delayed.

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Because it was an interesting novel, I stayed up all night to finish it.

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Any payments that are  __________  at the end of the month will incur a late fee.