Small scale home life is part of a hot___in the USA nowadays.
A.trend
B.interests
C.population
A.trend
B.interests
C.population
Small countries use export to realize the economics of scale that is very ______.
A.easy
B.difficult
C.no use
Workers come and go as they please. They make vital decisions
previous made by the bosses. Secretaries have been abolished. The 【M1】______
assembly line has been abandoned, as has economies of scale like 【M2】______
buying components in bulk. A quarter of employers fix their own 【M3】______
salaries and soon everyone will. The workers decide how many of 【M4】______
the profits to share and how much to invest. Many of the rest are
encouraged to work from home and set up their own small companies. 【M5】______
Employees reorganize their factories and choose new sites for
development. Central computers have been consigned to oblivion
along with rows of unnecessary filing cabinets. Memos must be
confined in one page. There are no controls over expenses or business 【M6】______
travel. There is a reception desk, and no receptionist. The boss doesn't 【M7】______
even have his own desk and has to make his own tea.
The company, Semco, is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, makes pumps, 【M8】______
dishwashers and cooling units. It has been crawled over by the media
and hundred of curious corporations including 150 of the Fortune top 【M9】______
500 companies in the US. Semco has increased profits fivefold to nearly
$ 3 million on sales approaching $ 30 million. It exports 23 percent of
output. Productivity has risen sevenfold and the company was free of 【M10】______
【M1】
If an industrial process has diseconomies of scale, then in the long run we expect______.
A.a large number of small producers
B.a small number of large producers
C.a single large producer
D.a government provision of this product
A.they are small in scale
B.they are familiar businesses
C.they are not very profitable
D.they are often dictated by technology, regulation or fashion
______ it's easier for man to get job in the past as well as today.
A.By degrees
B.To a certain extent
C.To the point
D.On a small scale
According to UNAIDS Senior Adviser Karen Stanecki,______.
A.Asia is home to some of the fastest-growing epidemics in the world
B.five million people became newly infected with HIV this year
C.the scale of the AIDS problem in Africa has not been well-documented
D.percent of today's 15 year olds will not reach their 60th birthday
The angel investors rejects a company for the following reasons except?
A.lack of growth potential and of sufficient talent of the management
B.without full understanding of the entreprenuer or the mainstay employees
C.the scale of the business is too small
A.the PepsiCo must be centralized in management
B.many small companies can't compete with a large company
C.autonomous business may result in good profits
D.the managers are not good enough
What did Sam stress at the very beginning of his report?
A.His findings were very tentative.
B.He did a very small scale survey.
C.He stressed that his visit was undertaken last week.
What can we learn about the social changes in Japanese society?
A.They are always accompanied by a national identity crisis.
B.They often happen in large scale but end up in small effect.
C.They often take place simply while resulting in huge accumulative consequences.
D.They often take place without being analyzed and reported because of their complexity.
______is especially proper.
A.A big gift
B.Large payment as a gift
C.A small gift from one's home
D.A gift from Singapore