Practice task

English sentence

Russian translation

He also gave money to a small North Carolina college, which became Duke University.

Он также пожертвовал деньги на маленький колледж в Северной Каролине, который позже приобрел статус университета и был назван в честь своего мецената «Дьюк юнивесити».

Addition

For example, over many years corporations have created enough wealth to raise living standards dramatically in industrialized nations.

Например, за много лет корпорации накопили достаточный запас материальных ценностей, чтобы значительно поднять жизненный уровень населения в промышленно развитых странах.

nation - 1) народ, нация; народность; 2) государство, страна

Specification

University professors sing the praises of Einstein, Socrates, and occasionally a more prestigious version of ‘Mr. Chips’.

*Мистер Чипс - центральный персонаж книги Дж. Хилтона [Hilton, James] " До свидания, мистер Чипс" [" Goodbye, Mr. Chips"] (1935) и одноименного фильма по ней (1939); учитель латыни, отдающий все силы и любовь своим ученикам. Синоним учителя, преданного своему делу.

He [Duke] installed Bonsak machines in four new manufacturing plants that soon ran 24 hours a day.

Child labour, once widespread in the United States, is no longer permitted, but exists in other nations.

The past 20 years have seen novel changes in sentencing practices …

Other conceptions of labor dispense with these assumptions.

dispense with - обходиться без чего-л.

All successful designers, from an icon like Gaultier to a young tyro emerging from the backstreets of New York, understand that they are running a business.

Hopefully tomorrow's public relations practitioners will exercise more ethical control than some of their earlier forerunners.

In the 1980s, much academic ink was spilled over the “productivity paradox,” where businesses had invested heavily in information technology over the preceding two decades, but, despite the capital outlay, had very little to show for their efforts.

In October 2005 he [Williamson] added an additional, iridescent feather to his cap by being appointed as the designer at Emilio Pucci.

There are millions of candidates online, reviewing hundreds of thousands of job openings listed at thousands of career sites on the Web.

Mass tourism did not really begin to develop, however, until two things had occurred.

Zara is renowned for whisking budget interpretation of catwalk style into its stores with breathtaking speed.

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Companies in ascending industries change societies by altering all three of their primary elements – ideas, institutions, and material things.

The Bradford Formula is used to calculate an “attendance score”.

So soon as this is recognized, the distinction between economy in consumption and economy in investment becomes blurred. For, up to a point, consumption is investment in personal productive capacity.

Prevent domination by individual members of the group by bringing in other people and asking cross-reference questions.

The theory is that short, frequent and unplanned absences are more disruptive than longer absences.

Communications are effective in a performance improvement program because of the way our brains work.

Our next stop is a factory floor, where four cutting tables can cut as many as 8,000 garments a day.

Bowling is another sport in which a number of presidents actively participated in while in the White House.

Clearly, a focus on practice is fundamental.

Many persons are unaware that these crimes exist.

The Internet is a valuable recruiting tool, especially for reaching prospective employees in their twenties and thirties.

This scenario is routine, happening literally hundreds of thousands of times in jurisdictions throughout the United States each year.

The UN Development Program says the goal of in­vestment and trade liberalization is to improve the quality of life.

But I won’t pretend to be a detached, disinterested observer. Nobody believes in them anymore anyway.