He is said to be the best soccer player England has ever produced. 2 It is (widely) felt that more dustbins should be supplied by the Council to alleviate the refuse situation. The paths in the local park are covered with litter and rubbish overflows from the few dustbins that have been provided by the Council. 3 When Bess was promoted to CEO of the company, she was given the authority to hire or fire anybody she wanted to. She replaced two of the lazier secretaries and it is said she will hire an extra person for Saturdays. 4 We regret to inform you that your luggage has been misplaced. It appears to have been put on a plane to Italy. You will be contacted as soon as its exact whereabouts has been discovered. EX 31 1 with, by 2 with 3 in 4 from 5 with 6 from 7 in EX 32 1 I resent my efforts being laughed at. 2 The editor's advice should be listened to. 3 In the `50s, interactive TV hadn't even been dreamt of. 4 The details must be taken care of.
Are these the books that you wanted me to read? The Indefinite Article is used when referring to a representative of its class, category or profession: I am a teacher. You are a student. A table is a piece of furniture. Mary works as a secretary. In the plural these nouns take no article: Both of my parents are teachers. Tables are pieces of furniture. Mary and Anne work as secretaries. The Definite Article is used when we refer to a particular place, person, animal or thing that is known to the listener/reader. It is used likewise with plural countable nouns. I'll give you the keys, only don't go near the shed or you'll upset the dog. (the keys to my garden, the shed in my garden, my dog) The windows were all broken and all my valuables were gone. (the windows of our house)
headed by a Prime Minister, and the courts. The President, who is elected to a five-year term, has a supervisory non-executive role: the current President is Aníbal Cavaco Silva. The Parliament is a chamber composed of 230 deputies elected for a four-year term. The government, whose head is the Prime Minister (currently Pedro Passos Coelho), chooses a Council of Ministers, that comprises the Ministers and State Secretaries. The courts are organized into several levels: judicial, administrative, and fiscal branches. The Supreme Courts are institutions of last resort/appeal. A thirteen- member Constitutional Court oversees the constitutionality of the laws. Portugal operates a multi-party system of competitive legislatures/local administrative governments at the national-, regional- and local-levels. The Legislative Assembly, Regional
If you are one of these groups, you are accorded the respect and worship reserved for God. Being seen in the company of a Caucasian person accords you instantly respectability and credibility. It accords you intelligence. 23 If you want to be successful, bring in a Caucasian partner. If you had been having difficulty securing a contract, send in your new partner and then you will have easy ride. The highest powers, whose secretaries would not even accept your calls, would be happy to meet with your partner. He would be invited to functions you would not dream of being invited to, and you may have to tag along with him if you wanted to be accorded and associated with respectability and credibility. Even the amount of bribe demanded from you will decrease at least by 20% because you are now considered trustworthy. Today’s white master, Black slave mentality started when the Caucasian came to Africa with a Bible and
Kramer, the Japanese- language expert who headed GZ and delivered the intercepts, arrived. He saw at once that the all-important conclusion of the long Japanese diplomatic note had come in since he had distributed the 13 previous parts the night before. He prepared a smooth copy from the rough decode and had his clerical assistant, Chief Yeoman H. L. Bryant, type up the usual 14 copies. Twelve of these were distributed by Kramer and his opposite number in S.I.S. to the President, the secretaries of State, War, and Navy, and a handful of top-ranking Army and Navy officers. The two others were file copies. This decode was part of a whole series of Japanese intercepts, which had long ago been given a collective codename, partly for security, partly for ease of reference, by a previous director of naval intelligence, Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson. Inspired, no doubt, by the mysterious daily production of the information and by
He asked her not to tell anyone else so that it didn’t create any waves around the office. He then raised her salary from $1,500 to $1,750 per month. She thanked him, and continued looking for ways to help him in his job. Three months later, he increased her pay again, and three months later, he increased her salary once more. By the end of the year, she was earning $2,250 per month, a 50 percent increase, while the other secretaries around her were still earning an average of $1,500. She said it was absolutely amazing what happened when she be- gan to focus all of her energies on adding value to her boss and to her company. And this same strategy can work for you. ■ SERVE PEOPLE BETTER Every job is an opportunity for you to solve problems and to satisfy the needs of other people. Since the problems and needs that peo-
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