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Unskilled workers have more and more difficulty finding a job in a technologically-oriented
society.
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2. Asked what kind of job they would like to have later, a vast majority of young French
people answered they wanted to be civil servants.
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3. The clash of cultures between public and private sectors has preoccupied politicians and
industrialists for a long time.
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4. More and more people are offered work contracts with an initial probationary period.
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5. American bosses have more power to hire and fire than French bosses.
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6. In France a lot of people prefer to work shorter hours in order to have more time to
themselves.
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7. American society is much more prepared to reward risk and to forgive failure than
European society.
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8. State -of- the art technology has increased the company's productivity and competitiveness.
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9. Moonlighting has become something of a national pastime in many countries.

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10. He does a bit of gardening as a sideline.

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 1. Lots of people don't spend their money sensibly and find it difficult to make ends meet.
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2. Gone are the days when the small shop was king.
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3. A retail revolution is now under way that could eventually lead to the death of small shops.
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4. Until recently the idea that we could all sit at home and shop from our computers was the
stuff of science fiction.
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5. Catalogues shopping has paved the way for e-commerce, getting many consumers to the
idea that shopping does not need to involve shops.
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6. E-commerce is changing the world shop.

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7. The internet increases consumer power because it is much easier for customers to switch
from one supplier to another.
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8. In less time than it takes for a kettle to boil, it is possible to select that new must-have video
and to order the latest bestseller.
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9. E-tail may enable you to shop round the clock but it will never replace human relations.
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10. To compete with supermarkets, megamalls and e-commerce, small shops will have to adapt
if they want to survive.
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