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Unfriendly new colleagues? Just give it time

Stay positive

NEW JOB: You’re excited about your new job and ready to do your best. So what’s with all the long faces around you? Welcome to your new workplace, where layoffs and budget cutbacks have demoralized and demotivated existing staff.

Warum dann

Entlassungen

Kürzungen

demoralisieren

Quiz: "pulling" or "picking"?

The economy is showing signs it is _____ up.

Quiz: "steep" or "stiff"?

Google’s Android operating system is proving to be ____ competition for the Apple iPhone OS.

Quiz: "bank" or "saver"?

"I’m going to have to raid the piggy _____ to pay for my holiday this year.“

The right time?

Economic policy makers around the world face a tough question. They have to decide when they should withdraw the stimuli — low interest rates and increased budget deficits — that helped to avoid the "great recession".

Wirtschaftspolitische Entscheider

zurückziehen

Zinssätze

Haushaltsdefizite

On sale. Photo: infomatique/www.flickr.com

A horse of a different colour

IRELAND: Hey, want to buy a racehorse? If you happen to have a lot of spare cash, Irish horse breeders would like to hear from you. The current financial crisis has hit the racing and breeding industry hard.

überschüssiges Bargeld

Züchter(innen)

Zucht-

Bad days at the office

TROUBLED RELATIONSHIPS: As if the recession alone weren’t bad enough: the financial crisis has led to more bullying in the workplace. According to research in Britain, numbers have doubled in the past ten years.

Mobbing

Untersuchungen

A model approach

US: Maybe it’s the popularity of reality TV shows. Maybe it’s a way to earn money in a recession. Or maybe there are just a lot of cute kids out there. Whatever the reason, many American parents are registering their children with modelling agencies.

niedlich

anmelden; hier: in die Kartei aufnehmen lassen

Modelagenturen

Pot luck

We look at media comment on the fight by EU countries to save jobs in Opel factories, as well as on Australia’s strong economy and Barack Obama’s decision to send 13,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

News: Insight business news

This week we listen to the business news. We'll play two short news segments for you, one on the effect of the recession on filmmaking in Bollywood, and the other on a UK company called Ounces2Pounds. As you listen, see if you can answer the following questions.

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