swine flu

Business Spotlight plus 6/2009

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The winner of our Business Spotlight plus 5/2009 competition is Ms Cronenberg-März, from Neuenbürg-Waldrennach.

Google Books, trade agreements and swine flu

We look at international media comment on Google’s project to digitize the world’s books, gender inequality in the City, as well as the swine flu vaccine.

digitalisieren

Geschlechter-

Londoner Finanzdistrikt

Schweinegrippe-Impfung

Silly or sick?

The silly season is officially in full swing. This means that newspapers are full of silly stories in the month of August. I didn’t coin the expression “silly season”. You can look it up in the Oxford Dictionary of English.

Saure-Gurken-Zeit, Sommerloch (silly= albern)

in vollem Gange

den Ausdruck prägen

Swine flu wasn't so bad for this business. Photo: Eneas

Swine flu and your business

Every day there are more reported (and unreported) cases of swine flu. What are the effects on businesses? In this exercise, we look at the language to talk about how companies are reacting to H1N1.

Schweinegrippe

Swine-flu gold rush

GlaxoSmithKline has spent three-and-a-half years preparing a vaccine for a pandemic. Now, it expects to reap the rewards selling swine-flu drugs.

Impfstoff

Pandemie

ernten

Lohn

Schweinegrippe-Medikamente

Trying to keep the disease in check. Photo: Eneas de Troya

The threat spreads

MEXICO: A new type of swine flu is threatening the health and lives of people in several of the world’s continents. The most deaths have been reported in Mexico, where the illness is also having a severe effect on the economy.

Schweinegrippe

stark, ernsthaft

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