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The League of Nations is formed and the Health Organization of the League of ations is established. ‘The United Nations absorbs" all health or- ‘ganisations to form the WHO, * the World Health Organization (WHO) > Wiltgesundneltsorganisation * to mutate) fo" mutieren unifled n18 veranigt, oxganar zen buen 30 veraint “pressing osm dringend, drangend * outbreaks - Ausbruch *t0 look to sb fr sth t's smb 0) son leh wegen etwaan Jn. wenden "rection oh Fuhrung, Leitung SUSEMR ne Semerordoren — Segwiin, ‘The World Health Organization consti- tution is signed by all $1 countries of the United Nations, and 10 additionat ‘countries. ‘The WHO sets up a telex service to pro- vide information about disease. ‘The WHO initiates a mass tuberculosis" Inoculation™ programme using the BCG A programme to eracicate malaria is launched. ‘The International Agency for Research on Cancer is established. Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy” Minister of Health for the USSR, asks the WHO to * bureau 999 Biro * to promote sth (3 onset ‘sna et. ‘ordern,vorantreben "the League of Nations oI Volkerbund to absorb sth tu bx sinin tw. ‘aufnehmen schlucken telex {eo Telex, Fernschrelber tuberculosis beau “uberkulose “ingeulation 9 Impfung, Impfen vaccine is.0 Impstott rene “to eradicate sth ume Sintin ete, MeSbinishaging Training in Tropical by the WHO. ‘The WHO contrioutes $2.4 million annw: aly fo% the smallpox eradication effor. ‘The WHO establishes an international net- ‘work of consultants to help identify and ‘ontain® the disease, ‘The organisation helps contain a smallpox ‘outbreak in Yugoslavia, FUN ‘The WHO declares smallpox has been eradicated. 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Iti a list of medicines that “Satisfy the priority healthcare needs ‘ofthe population.” ‘The WHO begins its global programme ‘on HIV/AIDS. ‘The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is ‘established by the WHO. 1996 UNAIDS is formed, it shares some focilties» with the WHO. ‘The WHO establishes the Global Put Health inteligence™ Network after an out- ‘break of the Ebola virus went undetectec* for months in the Congo two years earlier. ‘The WHO's 50th anniversary® sees an- rnouncements from the Director Genera highlighting gains in child survival re- ‘duced infant mortality® and increased life expectancy ‘The Stop TB Partnership is created with the UN's formulation of the Millennium Development Goal ‘The measles initiative is formed, ‘The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is drawn ups with the aim of improving the resources available, ‘The organisation has 192 member coun- ties and employs 8,000 doctors, scientists, epidemiologists, managers and administra- tors around the world. “The WHO endorses the world’s first of- ficial HIV/AIDS Tool for Zimbabwe. 2007: ‘The measles initiative is crecitod with re- ducing global deaths from the disease by ® ‘The organisation sets itself a six-year goal of reducing the number of people aged 15— 24 infected with HIV by 50%. ‘The WHO defines five key areas of focus, they predominantiye look tom reduce the health, social and economic burden of communicable diseases. ‘The WHO's first global conference on air pollution® and health is organised. ‘The WHO issues® guidelines® for limiting screen time for people aged two to five. 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While ‘our medical knowledge has ex- ploded by leans and bounds in the modem era, the phantom of another pan- demic is always lurking” around the corner History’ worst medical crises, though, may coffer some cold lessons needed to stav2 o'™ some future catastrophe, Ancient Ailments’ Some of the world’s first pandemics struck Europe centuries ago, One of the ear liest recorded ones is known as the Antonine "outbreak lei Ausbrueh smallpox ocken, bubonic plague » Ne Beulenpest 0 send shivers down sb's spine {9 se 1» dm. einen (katen) Schauer ‘ber den Ricken jagen hazmat suit zr by leaps and bounds sprunghatt tolurk | Sehutzanzug 1 ips snl gant, ‘ aern around the corner # ond 9 fon Eke crigas io Kegan “to stave th off te abwehren, abwenden ~ fanclent ont ant, - aertmiich ailment um die Erkrankung, Leiden the Antonine Plague 5: 372i pl ~“ Plagues. Itlasted from 165 to 180 A0% and 2 the Roman Empire, The disease was brought into Europe by Roman soldiers who ‘were returning from military campaigns in the Asia Winor” region. Experts suspect that the disease was either smallpox or measles, but the actual cause has never been formally verifies, The mortality rate of the plague ‘was about 25 percent. On certain days, 2.000 people succumbed to the illness in Rome itself, In totale, say the Antonine Plague took 5 mln lives. The outbreak was named for Antoninus, the family name of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Rome's © rs, the Byzantine Empire, wasn't spared froma disaster» timate Antoniche Pest AD (Anno Domini): san 1. 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Deaths across the globe surpassed 1 mn, Anumber of wealthy or influential peo- ple worldwide were among the victims, further fvelng® public (rena) and causing widespread panic. ‘Three decades later, in 1918, an out- break known as Spanish flu was even less forivina®. This strain” ofthe flu infected 500 min individuals, which was ‘oughly one-quarter of the world’s population at the time. 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The outbreak began during World ‘War 1, but the warring powers of Europe and North America were unwiling (o* re- port on the rising cases of infections in ‘order to maintain national morale. Spain, Which had reraineo™ neutral, was free to rt orm the epidemic, so much of the world believed that Spain had been par- ticularly hard hits, While inaccurate, the name stuck, The epidemic finally cies ‘own in 1920. 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HIV/AIDS was first identi- fied in Africa in 1976, Throughout the last four decades, HIV/AIDS has taken the lives of 36 mln people. Another 31 to 35 mln individuals are still living with impoverished areas of Africa, The good ‘news is that the annual number of deaths ‘caused by HIV/AIDS has been grcualy* dropping for years, HIV is far more 2° ageable" today than it has ever been, so certain people who have it are till 992012 of leading productive lives. From 2013 0 2016, an Ebola virus epi- demic ‘22920 countries in West ATi. ‘The total number of deaths is compara tively small, but the virus devastated populations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The outbreak had a crippling" 40 percent mortality rate, and its effects ‘were some of the most horrendous” ever seen, Symptoms brought on™ by Ebola = malady oo! 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They may not be the most spec- ‘acular, but they remain menacina™ none: ©, The 2002-2004 SARS outbreak. infected people on six continents and ever tually took 774 lives. The 2009 swine \u™ terrorized the entire globe. About 1 bin cases were confirms, and the death toll is estimated to be as high as 575,000. With new variations of flu-type illnesses ping up™ every couple of years, the true threats to humanity's well-being may be the ones we suspect the least Perilous Pandemics For all™ of our ments, we humans are still (r2gie%* enea- tures. The world certainly feels safer to- day than at any other point in history, but recent outbreaks indicate we are far from hnvulnerable, Will our medical genius us from upcoming’ diseases, or is humanity, with all its hubris, in for a tude awakening? 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BEM’s Michael Gaylord looked into® how far the ripples? are likely to travel. sequences began to spread" in the city of Wuhan, China, after apparently beginning at a fish market there, Before lon9%, there were tens of thou- sands of cases, not only in the Wuhan area, but also across much of China, Parts» ate in 2019, an nfuenzo™ike vie rus with potentially deadly con- “to batten down the hatches {9 etn dacn 8s ‘le de Schottendicht machen to suffer 50 Helden,erelden » stock market so" 90 Alana, Bare “to eel (9 taumeln,schwanken, verunsichert sein * viral outbreak 2) ok Viusausbruch, Ausbruch einesides Virus * to turn Into sth {9 £9 ta Sanne fa ctw. verwandeln > toaffact th 9 beeintrachtigen *t0 look int sth 1 [ok n> sano aw. ptfen, vuntersuchen * ripple 9] KrBuseln, Krouselwel influenza (fu) oes he: pp ‘tp spread so sich verbreiten "apparently 9 ansehelnend, ‘offensichtich * before long bi on bald, In Karze tw. betreffen, A Senererasesneen se Oeof the Chinese economy oiourd to a al halt as severe quarantine” measures were inpleme jon February ofthis _yeat, South Korea, Iran and Italy, were expe- riencing serious cisruption’® of their econ. ‘omies, health care systems" and, indeed, ways of life. By early March, numerous cafes and restaurants from Milan to Rome, places that just days earlier were daily *» ures for Italians, stood deserted, Italy's Prine Minister Guiseppe Cont had extend- ed restrictions on bas, restaurants and shops ‘being open to incuse the whole country i an attempt to slow down the infection rate Restaurateur Lorenzo Vanni, who has oper. ated his small cine for 53 years in the Prati district musee®, “Today in Rome the stmos- ‘phere is surreal. Its strange, like in a movi. Tam stunned, ipcre> velassen, mmenschenleer * prime minister Premierminister 2 COVER STORY THE SO-CALLED ‘CORONAVIRUS,’ WHICH CAUSES THE ILLNESS COVID 19, IS ONE OF ANUMBER OF CONTAGIOUS VIRAL ILLNESSES WHOSE SYMPTOMS ARE NOT UNLIKE INFLUENZA. these cases, sufferers may have couch the illesses are spread through spiatony dopletss, However, unlike some other viruses, people inieced wth COVID 19 will cisploy a high fever. Also this vi- rus has @ much higher mortolty rote, and, pethaps more concernino for many, no to Include sth tw, "Iman attempt todo sth In dem Bemahen, etw. 2u tun to slow sth down ew. verlangsamen > infection rate Infektionsrate diner Imbiss, Eslokal to muse (9) grbeln, nachsinnen ® incredulous unglaubi, unglaubhatt to sweep across sth Uber etw.hinwesfegen » sovealled sogenannter ™ contagious ansteckend, Sertragbar » not unlike X Husten Feber Sehmerz(en) X nicht unahlich * cough fever ache accine® (sh sight, “It appears that out of 1,000 people who have this coronavi- rs, somewhere between 10 to 30 people will die, compared to one person [out of 1,000] who has the fu,” said Dr Leana Wen, an omeig oo and pub- lic health professor at George Washington Universit inthe US. She added, “bat this is ossentisl*a pandemic that i spreading around the world. You cannot compare the 2c othe potential effet oF this feoro- navinus} othe fu This information, as wel a ll of the in- formation from other physicians and scien- tists, relly ithe opinion of US president Donald Trump, wo said in mid- “March, “We (the US Goverment) have tr- rmendous control over it. Ina few days the number of cases will be down to zero", By the time ofthis writing, in the United States over 100,000 people had ded and the virus threatened to Kil perhaps as many as that in Bravl, which, by ate May, had become the couniry with the fastest-growing numberof cases and deaths Economic Effects However, it will be difficult for polit cal leaders such as Trump to ignore the al- ready-present economic consequences of “respiratory der Atomwege droplet 009: Tépehen ‘infected with sth Infzore “to display * mortality rate Sterblichkitsrate concerning besorgniserregend Impstoft In Sekt sein tem, sit etw zeigen, autweisen Mortaltatsrate, ‘to be in sight * compared to sth veralichen mit etw. emergency essentially eigentlich ‘impact Etfont to counter sth begegnen,entgegenwirken Not: im Grunde, uswirkung,the pandemic, which seem to be ‘= nom, Stock markets around the world meted by amounts not seen in dec- des, By mid-March many “20 global exchanges, including the bellyicther New York Stock Exchange, had reached *, This meant that their ave incices® were at least 20 percent lower than they had been at their highest point, which had been, ironically, not much earlier, in January. ‘Travel and tourism, which many econ- ‘omies are highly dependent or, has been severely affected, First, there was the ise ines industry, which was hit espe- cially nar, partly because of its old- er clientele ocean-going® eruises were stopped; by the second week of March, two major cruise lines, Princess and Viking, which together employ nearly ‘50,000 people, shu down, Next eame the 2iline™ industry: major airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways and LOT ied” and even suspends international flights, New route closures, which have “fewer people flying, could wpe out up to USD 113 min in world- ‘wide airline ‘2yenues" this year, according ‘farreaching weltreichend, tlefgreifend to plummet © pv abstizen, umgebremst fallen major bedeutend, Haupt- © bellwether so) Indkatoy,Lethammel * bear territory 8c") ten lnm) Minusbereich average 20/003 durehsehnittich indices ss Inde, ndizes "dependent on sth (indestens 20% schwer, massiv Kreuafahrtinie severely to hit sth hard 9 it 2 et hart schwer trffen © partly po tells, teltweise * clientele lente, Kundschaft * ocean-going Hochse to employ beschaftigen © to shut down : schliefen airing > Fluglini, Fluggesellschat to curtail tinscheinken, kirzen "to suspend 19:2 send aussetzen, unterbrechen A toan industry ‘rade group, “In little over ‘wo months, the industry's prospects” in much of the world have token a dramat- ie tum fo .P said Alexandre de Juniac, beac of the International Air ‘Transport Association. Some low-cost ait- Tines, such as the UK's Flybe, which had been 5 © financially for a while, ‘ceased! operations altogether, the impact of the virus providing the fina! blow Hotels, tour companies and restaurants have been adversely affected. China, which had the most cases at the begin- ning, 1p a huge portion® of sales for hotel and travel companies. Casino and ‘company Las Vegas Sands, for ex ample, ears 90 percent of its income in China, Many of its rooms are now empty. Intaly, where over 75,000 people hal co {ractes® the virus, the country’s USD 253. bin tourism industry has slowed down cor siderably, Annie Ojile, (ounce of private tour company Seooteroma, based in Rome, has been trying to organise local business ‘owners to communicate that it is us « usual. The historic centre has become ‘a ghost town, “We are missing the tourists and the Americans, The Vatican is empty". » route 1" Route, Strecke % closure 0991 Seblebung to result from sth aut ctw zurickaufihren sein * to wipe sth out ‘9 ov tw ausradieren,ausloschen,eliminieren revenues 09» Einmabmen ® trade group (= 1p Branchenverband » prospects Ausschten, Perspektiven| to take a turn forthe worse i 25 05 leh 2um Sehlechteren wenden ‘head oi Chef Leiter to struggle % v0 kémpfen, sich mahen’ qualen to cease sth vy etw.aufgeben, citation “final blow 9 > tater Sehlagieb adversely ‘ungistig, nacht, to make up X % «9 Xausmachenistellen © portion >> nel, Teil ‘resort > Ferienart,Erholungsort income 1:0" Eianahmen, Einkommen to contrat sth tw infiziren, sich etw,zuziehen fi eh mit This has been the case not only in Italy. Ststeside, after two professional basketball players became ill with the vi- rus, the NBA prompt announced that it was suspendinow its season, Within days, professional hockey, soccer and baseball leagues around much of the globe, in fact, had also closes up shop, no doubt greatly disappointing their ‘2bic fans but, more significantly, thyowing thousands of sta- dium workers ewe, Major en= tertainment events fell like dominoes: Eurovision; Cannes (Film Festival): Glastonbury (Music Festival); Tokyo’s upcoming” Summer Olympics. With cin- ‘emas suddenly shut ‘was estimat- €d that the global box office would lose about USD 5 bin as a result of the pan- demic, One report confirmed that about 170,000 film industry workers had al- ready lost their jobs by the end of March inthe UK and USA alone. Of course, 2m = were being 220% almost every= Where, it seemed, but un! ke their eor- porate counterparts", movie and stage production workers were largely aid of at shor notices, with litle or no financial ‘compensation. » © considerably 5075! etree, erhebieh founder Grinder © business as usual 2122s 22 uo alls) wie ‘gehabtjabich % ghost town sot on Gelsterstadt stateside oo Inden Staaten * promptly sofort, umgehend to suspend sth en at, aussotzen,unterbroch "to close up shop den Laden zumachen, et. schlien rable fanatisch, witend to throw sb out of work ‘= ‘dn. aus dar Arbeit werfen, dn. vor le Tar setzen ° upeoming bevorstehend, anstehend, autkommend to shutter sth > J) sims etm, seileen employee -Arbelter, Mitarbeiter to ace sb (2 jd. entassen uke 90 anders (as) counterpart ors! Pendant, Gegenstick to lay sb off of. etlassen at short natice = uratistig, bel kurcristiger Kandigung 3Responses Political and economic leaders have brains to come measures to counter the economic ‘ur ‘moll, At fist, the central banks of sev- «eral major economies, including the Bank racked their ip with ‘of England, the European Central Bank (the ECB)" and the Federal Reserve (the Fed)" in the US lowered their interest rates, hoping that would bring about increased confidence in borrowing and spending. But sha continued to drop, ‘so some more drastic actions were tak- cen: the ECB besfed up" its existing pro- ‘gramme of cheap ioan="* for banks, known as Ta me Refi Operations, or TLTRO, which, itis be- lieved, will centivise™ banks’ lending to ‘small businesses and allow the banks o easy on™ businesses that ove mon- ey but lack liquidity". There was some speculation that it might also announce ‘an increase in the size of the ECB’s exist- ing quantitative e=5i99 (OF) programme, "to rack one’s brains {92 won brew leh den Kopf zerbrach to come up with th kn 2 wi sich et, eifalen lassen turmoil 920 Aufeuhe Chaos, Turbulenzen ECB (the European Central Bank) sopran Europaische Zentralbank (E28) "the Fd (the Federal Reserve) 82 (04° vio Zentralbank (in den USA) intrest rate 95 Zingsate "to bring sth about ‘9b sin = hervorrufen, verursachen onfidence In sth Vertrauen inaut et, 1 share value Alcienwert to beef up sth em vergrésem, starken, aufpeppen o> Kredi, Dartehen targeted 000 geziet,zelorientert " Fong-term jo) tangist "= refinancing fas Umsehuldung, Refinanzierung "to incentvse sth 2 einen Anrez bleten, et, 2u tun t0.go easy on sb sab fn. iit Hachsicht behandetn eos idm. 4 COVER STORY under which it has already bought more than EUR 2.6 tlh of bond=*, Economic ministers in the hardest hit countries ‘worked to ensure'™ homeowners re- ceived some temporary™ mortgage" payment folieh™ of even repayment™ holidays. Additionally, several countries are ready to draw ups emergency aid pac 205%, which are meant to provide health care systems with added resources (such as extra beds and veniistors) to direct- ly help those suffering from COVID 19. Extra public spending™ for companies and individuals hardest hit by the virus, if things get far worse, have not been ree outt®, Others recommend ample fund- ing for health services; targeted measures to help individuals such as the sel-2r joyess and some “broad macroeconom: (om Insurance's” in the form of a halvino™ of companies" rity contribu ‘ons, The latter” measure could pro- Vide support of some 2.5 per cent of © they say. to owe sb sth boo nem. at, schulden/schuldig sein iguity 0 Ligue "© quantitative easing (QE) ‘vont zr quantitative Lockerung, bond Anlehe, Sehuldschein, Bond to ensure arantieren, sicherstel homeowner 20") Hausbestaer Mauseigentimer temporary ‘= wordbergehend mortga » Hypothele lief Bereiung, Erfeichterung “repayment per" Ruekeahlung to draw sth up 2 >: sanyo et aufstllen, ausarbeiten “emergency ad package 1) ps Sofortifepaket, Notfalirettungsschirm © ventilator 1)" Beatmungsgerat % puble spending ‘pik sen Staatsausgaben to rule sth out 2 I sin ost at. ‘aussclleBen ample 9 ellie, umfangreich self-employed 1p felberutieh, selbstandig Future Scenarios COVID 19, it appears, is here to stay — atleast for some time — and itis upendino™ economies around the world. The corona- virus has permeated almost all parts of ‘our planet. At this point, it may be difficult to say whether the impact af these <2: jections* will be enough to overcomes what some have predicted will be not just a vieakenino™ of the economy, but in- stead a virtual shutcown, The coronavi rus s on track to™ slow global travel, and ncom™ business, at a faster rate% than the SARS outbreak in 2003 and Bird Flu {in 2009. It has permeated almost all parts of the world, China is now a much larger participant in global trade, compared to ‘here they were in 2008 (when SARS hit), and its lowered participation inthe global economy has been «e=niy felt, ‘Abest-case scenario, ifthe virus is suc- cessfully slowed, would see a return to normal life in the most affected regions by early summer of this year. 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However, even in such a case, distup- tions to supply chains and slightly low- cr business confidence will m slow production and business invest- ‘ment. The supply chain research and me- dia firm Material, Handling and Logisties estimates that the electronics and 2) ©, auto pars, building products, «i 1 chemicals, and industrial spe- cialties face much higher risks, partly because they are so. single points of failure. 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Who will get the ri investigates. 16 rmesncusracammiin uref you want to get from A to B in London, you have a range of op- tions. You could take the tuber. It is fast and efficient, and its eleven lines serve 270 stations, but you will nec jour wits about you" to viork out where to change’. IF you are fooish* enough to stand ‘on the middle part of an escalator, expect to be pushed aside by franticn commut: ers® tearing akneck speed For something more seote%, you could ‘9p onan iconic” London red bus, but ex- pect t0 get stuck ss, For the ins rack on everything from polities to foot- ball and the smartest oute* across town, a ride with a chirpy cockney® cabbie™ in a London black cab is 2 must but where’s the GPS? (Sce the knowledge). ‘Maybe you haven't time for any of that, and you just want to ‘2p your Uber app and baila ride in a couple of minutes. Depending on when you visit the capital, de tue war | Fahrt, Mitfahrgelegenteit Revierkamt, Zustandighetstonfikt *rde-haling ohn Taal Mitfahrgelegenhet rufend “the tube o> tb UBaha in London) *to need one’s wits about oneself 9:4 voit bos oon se sel nt Sinne beisammenhaben missen “to work sth out f > sfin oot aw. sen, sich aber etw, Kar werden to change © e5 umsta foolish (dumm, tient * escalator 10 Rolitreppe to push sb aside 3 osm 9S fm aur Seite schieben frantic =r: hektisch, vereweiflt * commuter b>) Pendler "to tear down 9 soy runterdisen « at breakneck speed 2 brain spi mitt halsbrecherischer Geschuindigkelt sedate «Jo rug, geruhsam “t0,hap on (shoo © aufspringen Jeane aon Kult ug stuck in trae sen stecken * inside track on sth sb tk on sin Innenspur, Vortell far etw, route 1 Weg, Strecke, Route © chiepy (>! munter,lebhaft ® cockney | Urlondoner, Cockney i ln Verkehr iene that may oF may not be possible. Uber has been operating in London since 2012 and is the clear market leader in ride-hailing services there, but it has had a number of run-ins with the city’s governing body, ‘Transport for London (TfL). This led to the refusal® to renew the company’s Ti- {cence to operate ntsly in 2017 and once again in 2019. Uber managed to get the decision overturnest in 2017 and is 2 pealino® once again. Earlier, a licence © nsion® was granted on the proviso that Uber made a number of improvements, ‘TIL stated that Uber had demonstrated @ pattern of failures” that put passenger safety at risk. This included unautho sed and possibly criminal drivers using other drivers’ accounts, resulting in around 14,000 ‘raudulent trips taking place in London in fate 2018 and early 2019, Uber is under extreme pressure tom clean up its co in what is one of the company's» cabbie co Taxfahrer % sthis a must soni 29s etw.ist ein Muss to tapsth bep sintin etm. antippen, sich ‘tw. 2u Hutze machen rum with sb 9 yb Kraeh mt dm. haben ® governing body ‘ven Fuhrungsgremium, Entscheidungsgremium 2 refusal 0 Absage, Verweigerung 2 to renew sth © ru sey tw. ermewern “intally n>) antanglich,2undchst te overturn sth &s aint Sand ate ‘appen, autheben “to appeal ° Im Berufung gehen extension ./0 ertingerung % to grant ab sth fag sto hn ma ctw, gewahrenigestatten ‘on the proviso that on pvr Set unter der Voraussetzung, dass “pattern psn Muster, Struktur © to put sb at risk 9 pt sb ot ost Goa beingen unauthorized jor! unaulssi, nautorsier *eriminal 0 Kelinel, Verbreeher “= fraidulent jo! beteigeriseh, unebrich “tobe under pressure tod sth 2b unter Druck stehe, etw. zutun “to clean up one's act 12 in 19 bbessernzusammenreifen 7icone nes most lucrative markets. (See London pri- vate hire market statistics). Say Hello to Ola Uber is now being challenged on two fronts; and rivals. It may have ‘cause for concern regarding the latest “to the London market. Ola isa ous Indian tiger, founded in Bengaluru (cic* Bangalore), the capital of the state, in 2009. In 2010, it cormered the mas- sive Mumbai market and now boasts tC 1.5 million drivers across 250 cities, in- cluding Delhi and Hyderabad. Its range of vehicles covers not just conventional tax is, but other meai nspor™ such as auto sm In 2018, it ora * into Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Ithas sieally* been mopping up the 2 market in Britain, in Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Liverpool and Reading, Ithas now recruited 25,000 divers to ser- vice its London operation. However, suc cess for Ola is by » guaranteed. it has received similar criticism to Uber Pinetree number of drivers in thousands Uber 18 os regarding the verification of drivers and transparency of pricing, using for example “surge pricing,’ a ™ based on current supp using algorithms, The Indian entrant will not enjoy a straight fight with Uber - there are other players 100, most notably Bolt. ally Taxify) was set up in 2013 by the then 19-year-old Eston Markus Villig. The first markets it voree were Riga and Tallinn, and it has ve extended its reach across the globe from Australia to South Africa, Mexico to Kazakhstan, Nigeria to Saudi Arabia and ‘many European countries, most notably Poland and Portugal, and more recently the UK, Boltis also active in the - electric scooter market and food delivery and demance “to challenge sb fa, herausfordern| “regulator Regullerungsbehérde ‘entrant i! Einsteiger, Teilnehmer ig © aka (also known 35) ‘alas, auch bekannt als unersittlich, to comer the market en Markt beherrschen Sto boast X bs D0! X aufwalsen means of transport Transportmitel rekshaw i Rikscha to branch out seinen “Tatigheltsbereicherweltern ® stealthy ‘tl heimlich “to mop sth up tw. abschopfen * rideshare wittahe. * by no means ‘auf keinen Fall, eineswegs. surge si Anstiog * dynamic pricing strategy ‘dynamische Presstrategie * supply so: Angebot “demand Nachtrage then X den damals x to conquer tw. erobern © dockless co's statlonsls, ohne RuckgabestationLike Uber, though, it encountered problems with TYL on starting in the eap- ital in 2017, and had to velour and aan operating licence. Ii > public and regulator concerns over safety issues, it undertakes r ks on drivers, who must be over 21 and have held a dvi for atleast three years. It also operates a 2219 toler ‘licy® on alcohol and drug user. In ‘Nigeria, it uses an SOS button that direct- ly links drivers to emergency services. It Jooks like the company is ain lf on passenger security The French-German Invasion Just when you thought that Bott ne aces” it Iooks like their hand could be by yet another play- er. (See - Private ride-share companies in the capital) Founded in France in 2011, Chauffeur Privé has since attracted 1.5 million users and 18,000 drivers, operat- ing in Paris, Lyon and the Cote d” Azur. In 2017, Daimler Mobility Servic a majortt in the company and has ambitious plans to further its CASE strat- egy of Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services and Electric, But it was felt that Chauffeur Privé souncled just abit too French for a global market, so the com- pany has been rebranded as Kapten and is fying off ™ with all gun inom. Kapten has a market strategy of low pricing and high morals - that’s the cia" In a po-holds-barrec campaign that» “to encounter sth aut tw, stoBenstretfen ‘to relaunch Markt) elnfahren ‘to reapply forsth wieder um et. bewerben ial of sth bericksichtigend © criminal record check Oberprifung des Vorstrafenregisters * driving licence » zero tolerance policy Nultoleranzstrategie neu)wieder (auf dem seh Fuhrerschein The Knowledge To gaim a licence for the famous London cab, v/s i \y> called ‘the knowledge,” They have to mero! * and place of interest in a six-mile radius ofthe city centre. Then test, where ex es" re starting points and desti- * describe the route | hotel, snc they have to take a 9°v=! nations = them for the driver to ora turn, which needs to be optimal. to prepare for, spending countless hours on a aids" are stritly forbidden. knowledge - electronic nvigatior would-be >to passa test bestehen > ominously unheverheitend “to memorise sth ctw merkanieinpragen Wahrzeichen, Orientierungspunkt, Denkmal * grueling 900 Rermurbend, strapaziés ‘examiner Priter angehend, Méchtegern- einen Test unhellvl, sich landmark ‘to fire sth at sb | etw, aut jn ouern, jd mit et iene drivers have to pss «every street, ‘now every street and singly itcan take three t© four years votorbiket to embed® the sacred beschiesen * orally 9) minelich tot sth tw, austen " not surprisingly wenig Aberraschend, nicht unerwartet Motorrad to-embed sth 11 ew. verankern einbetten navigational aid Navigaionshife forbidden © motorbike verboten * drug use Drogenkonsum "to aim todo sth beabsichtigen, etw.2u tun > to differentiate oneself sich unterscheiden "to hold al the aces eel “Teimpfe in der Hand halten ™ to trump sth Ubertrumpfen to acquire th erwerben, kaufen majority stake et, ew, Menrheitsantet *to rebrand sth etm urnfrmieren, einer Marke einen neuen Namen geben to fy off the blocks Startichern flegen * with all guns blazing angrifsusti claim \ ew Behauptung * nosholds-barred Kompromisslos, alle Mtl ertaubt ‘us den 19Minune London Private Hire Market Statistics + 2006-2018 ~ black cab licences = stable at around 20,000 + 2006-2018 ~ private hire licene~ es rising from 40k to approx, 107,000 +24 percent of Uber’s global sales come from just five cities: in the USA, Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, ‘Sto Paulo in Brazil, and London in the UK. direct © Uber, promis ing to © their x02 by usin vehicles and re- specting the by paying tax and VAT, unlike Uber, as they say, who these by sin the Netherlands. ni [192 Intheory, such can only bbe good news for consumers, but some economists, , They fear that in the race for customers and mar ket share, the only way to keep prices © is by reducing quality and safe- ty. More fundamentally, some the business model is Naweo and , meaning that the big ‘gest player will simply orice their com petitors until they are broke™ and can be at a " price, as was the case in Sheffield with private bus compa. nies follow mid-1980s, One thing that seems certain is that ride-hailing services will become an * feature of urban trans- port services, and while many pas- s, as with 4, will be looking for the cheapest fare, oth- cts will be prepared to pay more for greater comfort, safety and 20 to take a swipe at sb Dissige/scharte ‘Bemerkungen Uber jn. machen undercut sth eta unterbieten fare 00) Fabrprels environmentally friendly umweltfreundich * community Gemeinschatt to sidestep sth ow. tumgehen, vermeiden to headquarter somewhere legendwo den Firmensitz ervchtenigrinden * winner takes all der Siegorbekommt) gewinnt alles competition Konkurena(kampf) Wettbewerb *to.bog to difer ine andere Meinung haben (wollen) 0 keep sth down tw. ein/iedrighalten argue that behaupten) argumentieren, dass Aawed 1 fehlarha, rmangethatt unsustainable unaltbar, untragbar to price sb out of the market jn. durch ledrge Preise aus dem Markt rangen "broke box plete to take sb over jn. ‘bernehmen knock-down Schleuder, suserst niedrig * deregulation Deregulierung * omnipresent allgegenwartig urban => stich “ budget arine Biligfieger sozialeigesellschatliche VerantwortungHyped for Hyperrealistic Masks Realistic silicone masks used to be nothing more than a neal? plot’ trick in Hollywood films. Today, they're the rea deal‘, and that could pell bad news®. BEM‘s eons Sidor goe incognito® to dig up’ f the truth. hype for sth wegenfir ctw. gehypt neat >! geschlckt, tl Masse lot ot Handlung Xsthe real deal Xenstirt wiih Xt war to spel ba news orb) hace Neigaten rn) bedeuten tog ncognto inkogito Da serenareren » to dig sth up etm ‘utdecken, ausgraben ans Licht ‘wigen 2icone nes ny fan of 1996's Mission. Impossible remembers how Tom Cruise's character nnedt the perfect disguise” by sporting a hyperrealistic mask. What ‘was once a fantastical notion is now a reality, as silicone masks of nearly any- ‘one’s face can readily be purchased”, But is this leap in technology necessarily a ‘good thing? Foolproof'® Facades”” ‘The technology behind hyperrealistic silicone masks has advances astronom- ically in recent years, Masks of human faces have gotten so |e) that many people can no longer t= the siferen ‘oveen® the two. In a 2019 study, research- crs from the UK’s University of York and Japan's University of Kyoto found that 20 percent of people can't ciscern” areal hu- ‘man face from a person wearing a mask. In the experiment, participants are presented ‘with two photographs, one showing a nor- mal face and the other depicting a per- son in a hyperrealistic mask. 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Inanother eration ofthe study, partic- pants were only permittec™ to view pho- 10 pairs for afrac*/on® of a second. In this cease, one-thind of all guesses were incor- rect. The organizets of the experiment con- tend that their findings have serious inp cations. They believe that the error ‘will be higher in @ natural seting outside igen to point sth aut _autzeigen,hervorhebon eu "incorrectly =) falc flselicherwelse ination 9») auerdem,daraberhinaus instantaneous »=>"8 aug, sofort accuracy is Genauigket,Richtighet iteration = Wlederholung, Durelaut to permit sth 2 sr tw elauben fraction i Bruce ‘error rate oo Fehlerquote for on vor alle, to astume (s 95.-"/amnetmen “attention to deta =e = Detaltreue » peroptve p> et seharsinnlg fine fei, grt, gut Sv yrnkle 0 itchen, Falke teeny © kltaekden, wing freckle Sommersprosse “hardwired todo sth fondo it veranlagt/programmiet, et. zu tun of a laboratory. Why? For one, most peo ple still don’t know these masks exist, so seasy to assure that you're looking at ‘areal person’s face, Another thing is that while the masks aren't perfect, the ater detail that goes into them can fool leven the most perceptive eye, Features Tike fine% wrinklesm and teeny fre create quite the illusion. One powerful psychological reason why these masks are such effective dis- guises is that we're hardwired tom think that there is no mask at all. If it generally ‘esemles a person’s face, we naturally assume that it's an actual face. Humans are social creatures who rely on trust, $0 ‘we don't go aroun looking for* other peo ple’ We instinctually® think peo ruthiult, So, when some- one around the comer wearing ‘realistic mask, we notice the things that ‘make it look real before our brains can reg- {ster all ofthe inconsistencies that are hic ing in pain sight Dangerous Disguises ‘The use of hyperrealistic masks today isn't allfun and games. 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Since these masks reserved to the world of fiction an- seasier for your averaa® joe* to ‘ttain* a mask of his own, Ths is true even for people whose motives are more ne!2r ous®, Experts say the price of a convincing® silicone mask has fallen to around USD 1,000, and it likely won't stay there long. AAs the masks become more abundant, ‘more legal issues are bound to eineroe" Criminals can mask their age, gender and r complications for legal investigations, ‘The list of notorious scotlawse who've made headlines using these masks ap- pears endless, One of the earliest in sdents® came in 2010, when a white man donned a mask to look black and robbed a ‘number of banks in Cincinnati, Ohio. An African-American man was even Wronc ‘uly arrested before the real verpetrs {or was apprehended, That same year, a Chinese stoavay on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver was caught wear- ing a silicone mask to impersonate an e Jeriym white passenger. 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In recent years, it looks as if crimi- nals have only become more brazen" in their use of hyperrealistic masks. In 2019, Brazilian d0ug lor Clauvino da Silva masterminded an audacious jailbreake ™ perpetrator ppv Tater, Gesetzesubertreter to apprehend sb sehen sta ‘assen, festnehmen stowaway 10029 linder Passagler ™ to catch sb doing sth (2 kf ibaa. ‘oo8 ine del erwischen, etw. zu tun "to impersonate sb sich fr Jd ausgeben, jn. imitioren eldery caterer "to dub sb X 9 sib sob dX taufen geezer (alter Knackes; Opa * to pul sth off pl sno tw. drchaiehen * a string of sth 9 si oy shu ee Rethe (von) «tw. * robbery ‘ob Raububerfal, Raub © outlaw 20> Verbrecher, Bandit “40 remain at large {9 = tows aut em Fu sein, fichtig sein brazen enn frac, dreist * drug lord 59 Drogenbaron © to mastermind sth pasaid Sn eh tw. ausdenken, et federfihrend planen * audacious > o/s rest koh iene when he had his 19-year-old daughter vis- ithim in prison, He put on a silicone mask resembling her, and completed his get-up with his daughter's clothes and a wion. Fortunately, he didn’t get too far before arousing suspicion™, Just a few months later, an even bigger cope involved a French-Isracli scarnmen* disguising him- self as the French Defence Minister in a series of video chats with heads of state business magnates and other luminaries™. He asked these individuals for financial aid to help France secure nationals" who had ‘been kcinapped by Islamist in he Middle East™, The scammer was eventually" able to net around USD 90 min before people started catching on™, Obscured'** Opportunities Despite the legion of legal hes:les"* hyperrealistic masks present, some see ‘great value in these veils. Many com- panics sce the masks as vital tools in im- proving various areas of safety and secu- rity, A Japanese car manufacturer, for ‘example, has used masks that mimic" » *allbreake Gefangnisausbruch getup get op Aufeug, Aufmachung, wig woo Pericke © to arouse suspicion op Verdacht cerregen ‘caper Voip Gaunerel, krummes Ding scammer sss) Retriger defence os Verteldigung ‘gad of state 39 Staatsoberhaupt ‘magnate ones Magnat “luminary >">" Koryphie, Berdhmtheit ‘ natonal 0 Staatsbirger "to kidnap sb (> iho i id centfahren,kidnappen the Middle East 0> 7! st dar Nabe Osten eventually: ves! selec, letztendlich to net Xt seh X ange to catch on on begrlfen, spitzbekommen bseured 05 werden au erkeanen hassle hes! Arger, Mahe yell ve Gasichtsscheier ‘car manufacturer ka) mnie jar) Autoherstelier = to mimic sth ts nr et nachahmen 23Convincing Capers 2002 Conrad Zdzierak ‘Awhite man wears a mask of a black man to commit a series of robberies in the US state of Ohio. 201 Geezer Bandit ‘Aman robs atleast 16 banks throughout Southem California by ‘wearing a mask (0 look elderly 2019 Clauvino da Silva While imprisoned, a Brazilian drug lord wears silicone mask to impersonate his daughter in a failed attempt to break outTough as Nails Crisis seems to be the topic du jou'. In these uncertain® times, what jobs can we turn to* in order to w ther any upcoming Jonathan Sidor reports on where to find refuge’. omies. Recession. In a post-co- rona world, that no job is safe in times of crisis, popular though, there are a handful of jobs that are ‘more resilient than most Mighty" Medicine The first field of work that'll be safe during most times of is a Jobs in medicine are rarely acte when other professionals in oth cer industries find their i Whether the GD?* is rising or fall- ing, people will continue getting sick. In fact, public health often f any kind of People feel more stressed and various illnesses tend to Ironically enough, all of this is good news for those employed in medicine, This ‘obviously includes doctors and nurses, but . anyone employed in tough as nals hart wie Stan, sealthart X du jour X unserer Tage uncertain 99 unsicher totum to th sich et zuwenden, 2u etw. green ‘upcoming bbovorstehend, anstehend, ommend to weather a storm ‘Sturmeine Sache Uberstehen to batten down the hatches die Schottendicht machen Zuflueht bear market be Market, Balsse, Markt mit stetig fallenden Kursen to Muctuate uktuleren, schwanken to be forgiven for doing sth 5 sei jm. verziohen,etw. 2 tun to assume annehmen, vermuten ‘contrary to popular bli. ‘entgegen der allgemelnen utfassung resilant 0 blasthay, stabil, iderstandsfahig storm®? Batte mighty hardship no-brainer n down the hatch: as machtig, gewatig io, Elend Selbstliuter, Kinderspi!,etw. versteht sich von selbst to impact sth auf et ‘Auswirkungen haben livelihood Lebensunterhalt, Lebensgrundlage in jeopardy In Gofahrigetahraet sein GOP (gross domestic product (Gruttoiniandsprodukt) to deteriorate sich verschlechterm, abbauen In the aftermath of sth nach et, im NachsplelNachgang von etw. emergency to proliferate ausbreten to extend to sb bis zujdm, vietally ofall, Notsituation sich stark praktischa health care setting. Hospital adminis- ttators, medical technicians, receptionists and janitors tend to stay put. That being said, there are certain exceptions to the rule, Those providing» electives medical procedures, like cosmetic surgeons, tend to take 2 Ni. People simply don’t care ‘much about facelift or nose jobs when they can’t bring home the bacon. Now, the medical field is much broader than we may initially think, Physiotherapists, for instances, remain relatively insulatec™ when there's a crisis. People still need assistance in recovering frome previous allments* or surgeries. In addition, professionals specializing in ‘mental health frequently thrives while the rest of us hit rock battom®, Therapists, psychiatrists, and all sorts of counsel lors are constantly in high demands, ‘A016 study published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment» identified an Uptick io marital problems, substance abuse and anxiety disorders in» “setting “) Umfeld, Umgebung, Enrchtung ®twcinlelan > Technik, Fachmann * janitor 00) Mausmester, Porter *vtp stay put (eo Ort und Stele) bleiben * that being sald. 2 bun 500 abgesehen davon, . gleichwohl * exceptionto the rule i's29/nt9 89"! ‘Ausnahme von der Regel 40 provide sth (2 pv shi atm. anbieten,bereitstllen ® elective sick wahlwelse, fakulatu, Wahl- = surgeon 20309 Chleurg 2 tp take ait fe» nen Sehlag ‘instecken,einbrechen facet" Geslehtsstraung, Faceliting ® nose job 20" ob Nasenkorrektur,Nasen-OP “to bring home the bacon ous dle Brdtchen verdienen Intally >) zundchst, anfangich “ physiotherapist 200 erst, Physiotherapeut for instance 9 m3 sons zum Belspel iene ulated se abgeschirmt,ioliert “to recover from sth {9 fm sen sich von et, erholen “aliment 7 Ekrankung, Leiden © surgery ‘053 Operation “mental health "9 he gelstige/setische Gesundheit “to thrive 1s So auflihen, Erfolg haben, Aorieren "to hit rock bottom ( it ok bot am absolutenTiefpunkt ankommen, am Boden zerstt sein » payehlariat soot Payehiater all gorts of sth 2» ss ay sn alle Arte von etw. © counsellor ‘isos Barater, Ratgeber constantly ‘orton! stndig, andauernd “im igh demand 1p c"o:nd stark nachgetragt ‘disease 3 Krankhelt, Erkrankung © treatment ©)tro%t Behandlung “an uptick in sth an pte sain ‘utwartsknick bein etw. ‘marital se hes alien “substance abuse Drogenmissbrauch anxiety 22:0 Angst, Unruhe, Beklemmung © dlsorder os'60) Stérung, Erkrankung 27icone nes times of recession, Experts who can 91d individuals through® any of these issues will likely have their hands fulm White-Collar®* Wonders®* Avvariety® of typical office jobs are also more crisis poo! than others. For exam- pl, the job markets for accountanto® and sm are perennially™ flo People and corporations need to pay their taxes rain oF shine, 90 accountants are al- ways in demand to 2ssist* anyone dot the I's and cross the t's on any vital™ dac- ‘uments, Likewise”, financial regulations don’t just disappear during a recession, so ‘companies will tum to auditors to their financial statements» and re When money is tights, people will 1ook to / accountants and auditors (0 1 errors or oversight On the other side of the office, the IT Department will be ring onal as tech-heads will be called upon to han Glom all sorts of tasks. R i the financial or social climate outside, com- ‘puters and the Internet must keep running. Specialists like programmers, dev ersm, engineersm, analysts and website designers will soop in” and rescue com- panies when any technical glitches pop ups, Information technology is an ur> bella term covering an vlinders to guide sb through sth to oon! Jn. durch etw. uhrenvlenkeny betreuen “to have one's hands full alle Hande voll u tun haben (mit etw.jidm.) © white-collar ln” Baro, Angesteliten, Grist “wonder Wunder © varety sist elf, Vietzaht “ Xoproof pr Msichertbestndig accountant » ont Buehhalter, ‘Steverberater auditor >) Wirtschaftspifer, Buchprfer ® perennially 91>" bestandig, davernd "flourishing lerlerend, aufolhend rain or shine 2:72 [20 b's regnet oder schnelt, was auch geschehen mag 28 THE JOB MARKETS FOR ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS ARE PERENNIALLY FLOURISHING. ‘occupations, but most are resilient enough tostand on their ow oing When certain corporate offices ‘2co™ offs and downsizing, a number of legal firms see never-ending lines of pr: spective elients flocking to their door steps. Bankruptcy attorneys, for instance, ean make a killing™, as bank- rupteies tend to spike™ during recessions. ‘Apart from money troubles, people fre- quently experience hardships in their re jonships during a crisis. Who bene ‘ts fromm this? Divorce lawyers ean see ‘a notable uptick in the number of cases they have to oversee", Similarly, other to asiet sb Wott, behiich sein to dot one's 's and cross one's t's 9 vee and hos i i Bera) pingelig sein, alles bis aufs MUpfelchen genau machen vital wichtig "ikewise 8 ebenfalls, glelchermaBen, ‘lich "to go over sth to g20 20 ddurehgehen, prifen > financial statement 2189 'senna Finanzbericht,Abrechnung records > Unteragen, Aufzeichnungen ‘money is tght 0 0 Geld Ist knapp ‘= rustworthy {Ve vertrauenswrd, suverléssig costly res. heten 1 lebensnotwe i etw. kostspielig oversight soa Versehen * to fre on all ylinders 9 f(r) 00> hervorragend funktionieren Flichtigkeitsfehler, ' toch-head 10 hej dar sich mit Techie auskennt to eal upon sb (9 o> pon sb! sl am jn, wenden ‘to handle sth 9 hee sini et. edigen, bewaltigen regardless of sth (93:2 2 sindu Uunabhéngig von etw., ungeachtet einer S. developer e000) Entwleker engineer eds Ingenieur analyst oot Analytike, Analyst to swoop in 5p erelnstiemen aliteh 9 Panne, Macke, Fehler “to pop up auftauchen, erscheinen ‘= umbrela term 1 Oberbegrt, Sammelbegrit assortment of sth o'stiantov ste ‘Auswahl/Sortiment an etw. * to stand on one’s own (two) feet \auf eigenen Faken stehen * when the going gets tough we 62 'e5a, 1 wenn es hart au hart kommt wo face sth (fas nn ate ‘gegendberstehen, sich ctw. ‘gegenabersehen © layoffs = o's Enlassungen © downsizing 01s» Stellenabbaw © never-ending 212" ex umendlich “ prospective 2ukintig, angehend “to lock somewhere irgondwohin in Scharen kommenistrémen to sb’ doorstep {> ‘svnbod ‘stop au Jas. 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Crime rates often rise when unemployment siyrock generally immune from any job Av ies, recessions cause people to abandon their domicles™, and these empty buildings are ot o greater sk of™ atching fire™, Asa result, firefighters and fire inspectors stay quite busy. Some may not see educators as es- sential workers, but teachers and other professionals working in schools rarely stop work because of some kind of b's Gesetzesvolizugsbeamter, Plisist © immune from sth ctw geschitet, gegen et. 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How do customers get to their favourite shops? ‘Many select public transportation options, as they're more affordable than scooting around in your own car. Whether you're a bus driver, train conductor or ticket in spector, workers in public transit™ expe rience relative calm, while the rest of us are fretting about our jobs, Outstanding" Odd Jobs Furthermore, a mélange" of meaning ful yet peculiar workplaces ran fully staffed in recessions, Funeral workers, for one™, don’t see any shortage” of cus- tomers. The dead, afterall, don’t particu- larly ‘ake notice of the economy’s pertor mance”, Apart from those working six = Under, there are also those hardy souls™” employed in the slammer. Jails and pris- ‘ons must continue functioning, regardless ‘of what's going om in the outside world, so corrections officers, guards™ and parole board” members usually stay pat Moreover all kinds of utility work- cers find work with e250, as people don't cease™ calling for repairs. Electricians’ plumbers" and other technicians consist ently remain fariy busy. Customer ser vice reps for phone or Internet companies Still have to 2 their phones. Likewise, auto mechanics see a steady flow of cars that need tuning up". When a crisis hits, scores of™ people opt tom repair older instead of coughing up extra dough for a newer car. As a result, mechanics don't exactly go hungry. Surprisingly enough, librarians routine) thrive during times of recession as well. Numerous libraries offer many kinds of resources that could come in handy ina crisis, lke free computers, complementary workstations and con- ference rooms, and even workshops to help anyone master a wide array of skills ‘Those employed in libraries will be rela- tively sheltered whenever tough times me around. ronclad™ Occupations Understendably" most people worry about losing their jobs any time there's talk about dark days coming. 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Gold statuettes Gola bullion®, Whatever form it comes in, humans go bonk- ers for" gold, Why do we sa: vate over* gold, and how helpful can this clement be in our financial lives? AGolden History In all probability, gold was the first metal ciscoveres® by early humans. It was likely used for ornamental purposes at first, due to" its sheer briliance™ and the fact that it won't corrode” or tarnish Its Jewellery &5)9Sehmuck "statuette snot Statuette gold bullion = bler Barrengold, Goldin Barren ™ to go bonkers for sth {2 920 vonk fal") ‘us vert werden nach etw. “to salivate over sth 9 svt Saf) min nach etw. gelfern element lt Element “inal probability: prob bot aller Voraussicht nach to discover sth (9 Sindy at, centdecken ornamental v9 dekoratiy, sehmickend "duet th ci si wegedaugrund von et. sheer ("pu rein yiliance ions lang, Brillane to corrode 1900 rsten, korradleren © to tarnish (5 00/anlaufen, matt werden rarity “oon! 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Gold’s scarcity, beauty and uniques physical properties ‘made it more portable and permanent than any other alternative, Gold can re23 lly be meltecs, formed, reformed and ‘measured, Italso boosts* an unusually high iensity®, making it easy to cistinguish™, Early on in humanity’s*ove affair with gold, the metal was commonplaces in a ‘numberof the world’s rivers and streams, Neverthelessm, efforts# to mine for gold have been around for millennia as well. Ancient Egypt, China, Phoenicio® and oth- er societies" all forced slaves or prisoners ® searety ios" Krapphelt, Seltenheit “unique os einsigartig * physical properties tui oropatz Physitalische igenschaften portable p02 tragbar, transportabel © permanent rant dauerhaft, bestandig * readly oleh, schnell to melt 19 met sehmelzen "to boast sth ts boos sry tw. aufweisen kénnen density dors Dichte to distinguish sth aston Santina, lunterscheiden ' humanity 2% Mensehelt b's love afar with sth stoi iv 9%"), 08 S80 fs. 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Silver comes in a close second”, but its ‘main \eaknessm is that it tamishes, When exposed tom ai Overtime, silver loses its Juste, On the other hand, the combination of gol’sineriness and Searcity makes it immensely practical when it comes tom determining wealth and value In the 19th and early 20th centuries, several countries peaged their curencies {om gol, to operate on what is known as ‘he gole store, This meant that when the value of gold inereased, the value of a *t0.come across a8 X (9 kn soe 8 verstanden werden eo raflac sth (9 Tet sin et. widerspiegeln "reactive “=i reaktionsfreudig to.come ina close second {2 kn 9 Wace sosondknapp auf Platz 2 landen S weakness cro: Schwiche ‘to expose sth to sth tu 'p007 santo ‘opt et, aussetzen © overtime 222) tar mitjim Laue der Zit ‘lustre 9) Glana, Sehimmer “inertness > t95 Tighelt "immensely ‘ers! ungemein,immens * when it comes to th wen 2 ki wenn es um etw. geht © te determine sth 9 0'2:mn Sin at. festlegen, bestimmen “to peg sth to sth 2 peg smb ts samen tw. an etw. 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In general, investors claim that gold should be part of any 97 auBerdem, fener, susdtzlieh ‘to hedge against sth os gest mt sich gegen tw, absichern to witness sth (9 25 9 et. imiterleben, mit ansehen, Zeuge sein bel etw. © simultaneous 51>) er9=glelehzetig 1 constraint (orn Restriktion, Beschrinkung + supply of sth ss: 2 Sandip Angebot any von etw. ei id a0 sly f Gold ina Crisis Several investors contend that™ hoard ing™ gold makes particular sense™ in times of ersis. hyperinflation hits and ceash becomes unreliable™ the convention: 9] wiscom tells us that gold will keep yyou safe, For the most part™, historical fevidence™ has backed up this claim, In the majority of recessions that struci™ the USA in the past 60 years, gold made significant gains, More devastating™ crises around the ‘world high jghteo™ the significance of gold as well. At the conclusion™ ofthe Vietnam ‘War, southern Vietnam saw a mass e% odus™ of people fleeing the country’s ‘communist regime inthe late 1970s, Many . phenomenon irom Phanomen ‘to contribute to sth {9 fontnbut zu et. beitragen notable ovis beaehtleh, deutch to contend that. ion end 2 behaupteny argumentieren, dass. to hoard sth (2b horten, hamstern © parteular p90" besonders, spel bestimmt to make sense >= Sim machentergeben hyperinflation ipo" e/ Hyperlnfaion to it (strlen unreliable jor ssh unzuvertisig conventional wisdom \an'vej wi2de ‘ingige Meinung "forthe most part) 2 "2st po grb tenes evidence 1:97 Bewals to back sth up {obi samy yo te bestitigen,statzen © claim ey Behauptung = recession 12/0 Rezession, Konjunkturabschwung to strike b (sss sto! jd retfen “significant 9 edeutend, beachtlch sat wy etw. anhaufen, of these refugees sought safe passage by sea on ships capte.ned"* by govern- ‘ment-sanctioned™ smugglers, The only accepted form of payment was 24-karat gold. For a more current example, the co! Japsing* economy in Venezuela shovicas ces just how critical gold can be. Since hyperinflation has "endeved* Venezuela's paper banknotes vually"* worthless, gold hhas become the de facto™ means of pay- ‘ment, Sure, there are Venezuelans stock ing gold, but there are also cases of gold being used to pay for food, houses, cars and even university courses in the coun- try. When cash lets you dovin, gold can definitely come to your rescue™ However, gold still has its limitations. 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If one coun- tty ox san economic downturn™, {gold can swtiy" be traded across borders for something else of value. But what if there is no safe haven" unaffected by a crisis? Or what if a crisis is truly sestru em, verging on™ apocalypticm propor- tions? Gold’s worth, some fear, may be regligiblew, Even the Bible c as sm Famine™ as one of the Fo mien” of the apocalypse, “3 of wheat™ for a penny,” This statement™ < the notion that in a suv © situation, tenaible goods as simple as food could really be the most yalusble When things get nasty and people start acting like brutes, paying for things in gold could actually be nothing ‘more than cas volatile schwankend to warn {9909 warmen uty) Nutaen, Nattihkelt “to prize sth highly 2 0 hoch schatzen to experience sth re cerfahren, erleben economic downturn et tw, Gleaming" and Glittering'®* Humanity’s fascination with gold ore dates™ written history, and it's unlikely 10 go away anytime soon, It's been in our coins, in our banks, on our bodies and in ‘our investment portfolios. It’2nds to gain 1 values more consistently" than any sin- ile currency, so it'll likely help you out fon a rainy day, Putting all of your funds into gold, though, would be a foolhariy** move = to introduce 38 >in. vorstllen tam ) Munger © Four Horsemen f° 2 ‘apokalypischen Reiter "a measure of wheat ein ‘MaBieine MaBeinheit Weizen © statement “ont Aussage "to encapsulate sth yet auf den Punk bringen, zusammenfassen "survival 90 Oberleben "tangible onkeet, real gretbar “valuable ie (ver) ) wertvll,kostbar "possessions oo s/n Besitatimer "whan things get nasty. wenn esidie Situation schimm, ‘Wirtschatsabsehwung sarstig, bel wird, silyl raseh, schnell, tg = brute 01 Beste safe haven sei horn Rckaugsort,sicherer to cast pears before swine (2 o's Hafen p Perlen vor de Saue werfen unaffected lunbecintrchtig, nicht" to gleam (0 0!" glinzen strahlen luchten betrotfen ‘to glitter > o\7 ghinzen, litzern, destructive ss zerstérersch, vernichtend funkeln to verge on sth Vn etw, mabe “to predate sth 9 pet shi lke sein sein als etw, apocalyptic 2 > ip apokalyptiseh ‘to tend to do sth tated dam © negligible joo) unweseatlich, eigen, etw zu tun iene Greatest Gold Producers Country 2018 Production (in fo) China 404 Australia 319 Russia 297 USA 222 Canada 189 Greatest Gold Reserves Reserves as of April pet USA 81335 Germany 3366.5 Maly 2451.8 France 2436 Russia 2290.2 consistently sso bestandig, durchweg smainy day orTaking on’ Trump In the lead-up to? the 2020 US presidential election’, it was up to* the Democrats to vet® a candidate who could contend at the polls® with’ Donald Trump. How did it go? Jump on the campaign tra ® with BEM’s Jonathan Sidor. he 2020 US presidential elec I As the nt, President Donald Trump is the presum ti myinee® for the Republican Patty. But what about the Democrats? Which of them has stirred up" the greatest interest in their America's highest =! Here's a to take sb on ‘gegen jn. antreten, sich im. stellen inthe lead-up to sth in Vorfeld von ett. presidental election Prasidentschaftswah sth is upto sb tw, hangt von jdm. ab, etwlegt an jm. tovet sb Jd. (poltseh) Aberprifen, durchleuehten poll p=! 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Before entering politics, Warren. practicing law teaching and A major chunk of Warren's ca reer, though, was spent in * Warren anumber of >» * substantia bedeutend, wesentich ® hardship "0 Not Elend, Entbehrung * bachelor's degree Bachelorabschluss, Bachelordiplom Dien nes speech pathology Logopiie audiology ‘Ausiologe, Mérakustik t0,go on todo sth ew spiteridanach machen “to dabble in sth sich in ctw, versuchen Stick, Boeken * academia die cademische Welt to bounce around sth _uischen etw.herumspringen 37icone nes universities over two decades before land- ing at Harvard. She gradually ose through anks# of Harvard Law School and vally® became one ofits highest-paid professors. Warren became quite an influ- ential scholar in the field of law, pat larly in her areas of expertise™ - bankrupt cypvand commercial law In 2012, Warren finally decided to try her hand 3t™ poti- tics and viound up™ winning a seat in the Senate, representing Massachusets In the Senate, Warren became a vo col eritic of President Trump. She for- mally declared her eandidacy for 2020 on 9 February 2019. She ran a grassroots” ‘campaign that relied soley* on™ small do nations, She painted herself ase a pro gressives candidate who advocated fore free health care, free university, p3id pa rental leave and restrictions on corpora- tions. Unfortunately, Warren's campaign ~od in early 2020 before she could real- ly gain any tractions, She performed poor lye in most state primaries, even com ing In cistant third in her home state of Massachusetts. It appeared as if all of her ‘momentum from 2019 had dissipated, In the end, Warren suspends her campaign ‘on 5 March 2020, Bernie's Bravado* Aas fara the 2020 race's Democrats are concerned, Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the proud siiyer medallist. Sanders is no % the national spotlight, He centered the US House of Representatives in 1991, and he's been a US Senator since 2007, He rose to prominence in 2016, When he unsuccessfully went with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. Undeterred, he announced that he'd be running again in the 2020 contest on 19 February 2019, ‘Sanders was born into a Jewish far liy® on 8 September 1941 in New York City, He received his degree in politica cence in 1964, but his time at univer- sity was more noteworthy because of his social activism. He played a pr role in organizing protests conceming® civ il rights and racial inequality". After his studies, Sanders was elected mayor of stranger ad to head 38 Burlington, Vermont, forfour co ‘cums, before seeking national office. When it comes to 2020, you'd be hard pressed 0” find a more liberal candidate among the Democrats. 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Nevertheless, his cam- paign eventually sputter as another, ‘more moderate" candidate began to hoo limelight and elaim the lion's share of votes, Sanders called it quits on 8 April, Jostling® Joe While over two dozen people came forward vying for the 2020 Democratic nomination, it looks as if Joe Biden will come out on top when all is said and ddone™, Biden, a tenures statesman from Delaware, has largely garnered backing ‘because many people believe that he is the ‘most el2ct2ble® candidate. People may not ove him wholeheartedly, but they simply believe that he has the best shot at beat- ing Donald Trump down the line". Biden was bor on 20 November 1942 in Pennsylvania, After nbb\no his law degree, he naturally began practicing law. ‘Soon afterwards, Biden entered the world of polities, and was elected to the US Senate in 1972, At the timer, he was one of the youngest senators in American his- tory. He stuck around for seven terms and served" until 2009. Why did he leave? He was chosen to act as Barack Obama's vice president. Prior tom his 2020 bid, Biden also jaunched filed presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. For Biden, it just might be thatthe third time's the charrn™, Numerous spectators believe that Biden’s more ce" ‘vst™ policies have the potential to win ‘over scores of voters turned off™ by the ‘more radical approaches of other candi dates. Biden has proposed increasing the minimum wager, initiating’ a carbon emis. sions tax and maintaining America’s mil- itary presence abroad. Biden formally declared his candidacy for the 2020 race on 25 April 2019, months (ESSN Massoctuserts Seay USD 60 min (as of March 2020) after some of his closest rivals. This d= Jay" may have proven cost in the be- ginning, because Biden performed rather poorly in the first couple of primaries. 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In fact, Biden practically swept the southern states, After admirable pri- mary performances in March, 2 heap of individuals cropped out ofthe Democratic race™ in response tov Biden's meteoric™ i Undaunted** Donald Joe Biden may have vanquished his Democratic (025, but now he’s co ing mano a mano against™ Republican President Donald Trump bles", Trump was born in New York City ‘on 14 June 1946 and graduated fom” the University of Pennsylvania with a bach- lor’s degree in economies. He (00k the or all the mai + staunch 6 entschieden, berzeugt "populous ops bevlkerungsreich, cinwohnerstark "40 sweep sth 9 =p sry at (aus) ‘egen, hier: et. valig dominieren "admirable ‘sr Dewundernswert a heap of sb ‘ono ela Maufeny fine Menge von jm. "to drop out ofthe race i> crop 203 aus dem Rennen aussteigen "in response to sth AntwortiReaktion au etw. kometenhaft " Autstieg ol unersehrecken, undaunted unverdrossen "to vanquish sb (2 van besiegen, bezwingen "foe (0 Felnd, Gegner to go mano a mano against sb (2 oo sd Mann gegen Mann soe da, mit jdm, for all the marbles > 09 bie um alles, ums Ganze to graduate from X ts oe absolvieren, Xabschliegen to take the reins (002 fibernehmen eal estate sl Immobilien von etw. reins of his family’s real estate busi- ness in 1971 and expanded it on 2 glob 2 scale in the decades that followed. In 2016, Trump ianstone inom polities as he sought the ofice™ ofthe presidency for the first ime, He ron on a platform of bolstering America’s borders and cconomy. Trump sefeateo™ Democratic sival Hillary Clinton ina bitter raco full of mudslinging ‘Trump's frst ‘ern as president has been rocky, to say the least, Hi jor accomplish the Space Force and Jowering (2x ‘most Americans. Under Trump, the USA's unemployment ratem plummeted to 3.5 percent, a 50-year iow, Nevertheless, de tractors will point out Trump's poor handling of the migrant crisis along the Mexican border and the uptick in unrest seen during his tenure™. “to expand sth tusks pend sansin et, ‘ausbauen, ausdehnen ‘ona global scale 072 )sobl sl weltweit “to transition into th fs = In etw.ubergehen to seek the office (2 © ‘Amt bewerben presidency Prisidentenposten to run 7 kanieren, starten to bolster sth sam ‘unterstitzen © border 09)" Granze “to defeat sb arht schlagen we bitter race ‘to Rennen mudslinging Verunglimpfung © term (0 Amtszeit rocky 10 stelnig, schulerg % uy to say the least (2 ser is gesagt “major accomplishment ots sich um das rasidentschaft, dn, besiegen, ves erbitertes “np Sehlammsehlacht, ‘onion groser Erfolg son tw starten, to launch sth ‘rinden to lower taxes 190 senken "© unemployment rate ‘Arbeltslosenquote Other opponents say America’s in- ternational image is in shambles under Trump, and Trump’s im peachment™ in January of 2020 cer- tainly didn’t win many people over either. A House Divided'** ‘The 2020 contest for US President may be the most polarizing yet. The Democrats are now rallying behind Joe Biden to form united front against Trump, who will undoubtedly prove to be a formidable ad- versary. Will the Democrats be able to get their act together and tackle Trump, or will the Republicans reign supreme" in 2020? 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Janet Sandford ¢ traces? her phenomenal ascent’.Eran) sguyn Thi Phuong Thao was born in Hanoi in 1970. She puts all her achievements own to* what she deseribes ‘ult childhood surrounded by a loving immesite for’ and reatves. Her mother was a teacher and her father was & pharmacist, She said they taught her al the sills necessary for life, from caring for people to making yourself Took present bes in a hurry, when you need t0 sh to work. She believes that Vietnamese wom- cn are particularly strong when it comes to being compassionate”, ticulous®, generous and se AAs a cligent yet ambitious per- son, she studied in Moscow, first at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, where she gained two : n financial eredit manage- ment and |abour* evonomies, and then at the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical ‘Technology of Russia, achieving adoctor- ate in economic management. She soon {got into distributing goods internationally between countries such as Russia, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. ound t's times, she identified a hugely plots ar-travel market in Vietnam, co" bined wit an expanding middle class and sacrificing’, to put sth downto sth tsp in den ‘oon aw, tw, suschreben * peaceful felch "immediate family 3 Yon angate Familie “pharmacist no Apatheker * presentable po" sant, voreighar “to rush somewhere 9 se irgendwohin een * compassanats 9 =r mil © graceful ses elegant,graibs “meticulous > os soft akrbisch “generous so grog, ede © setsacrifcing sy sivas aufopted * tigen ic Ret yet gar “ bachelor's degree ‘2s Bachelorabschiuss ‘labour ‘eb Arbeit, Arbettsmarkt * around this ime. 92004 0 unger audieser Ze. * underexploted os sb untergenuta, amgenutat a SHE PUTS ALL HER ACHIEVEMENTS DOWN TO WHAT SHE DESCRIBES AS A PEACEFUL CHILDHOOD. ning® communist regime. She spent 1 best part of 10 years gaining an ir srl Erdffmungsiug, Erstlug ragulatory eee" behbrdlich, regulatorisch fedaling eds» Jung, unerfahren permitting™ the establishment of private airlines, and her new company, Vietlet Air, which would be a low-cost airline, initial approva™, although it would be a further four years before its ne (25 December 201, flying from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi) due to ory" problems and the global eco- ‘nomic crisis. Two years later, it first inter- tional flight between Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok took place, making the com> pany Vietnam's first international aitline. ‘The fledgling* company gained some oheniomena™ publicity in 2012, when it fan an ad campaign and, remarkably, some flights as well, eaturing® fight at endants in bikinis and red stockings. It certainly put the new airline or but also attracted a government and criticism of pulling a cheap, exploitatives stunts, When asked about it, the owner ot, answering that: “If a beautiful image helps our cus- tomers feel happy, we will always try our best.” ‘The provocative marketing campaign gained Vietlet global recognitions, but on the domestic» front, there were a num- ber of challenges to overcome. 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Vietet has tried to work in part- nership with stokcholderst from stati, customers, governments, supp and other airlines to open up opportuni ties and remove obstacies tom the com- ppany’s progress, Itis a strategy that has been very effective, with the airline 502s ing” the highest growth rater in passen ger numbers in the Asia-Pacific region, and the lion's share” of the domestic market. ‘fuel vo! Telbstof, Krafstoft procurement 0 sont Besehaffung, ‘uftragsvergabe * conception‘ [olde Konzeption stakeholder sto Interessenvertreter, Projektbetlligter, Stakeholder © staff so Personal, Mitarbeiter © supplier 92 Lleferant, Zuleferer © obstace to sth oso ts rin Minders Hirde fir tw, * to boast sth 1 etw. autwelsen énnen growth rate o1208 x! Wachstumsrate passenger i051" Passagier ™ super-rich up wealth vill Relehtum, Vermégen Brann 1n2017, Vietlet became the frst Vietnamese airline to be publily listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, Cruising’ Having ascended ‘2pialy in just six years of operation, in 2017, Vietet be- ‘came the first Vietnamese airline to be publicly sted on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock ket capitalisation™ of around USD 1.2 bln, Ms Thao had officially joined the ranks ‘ange (HOSE), achieving a ar Of the super-rich. Her current wealth is assessed by Forbes to stand alt around USD 2.5 bin, but even this may be an underestimates, » ons share over o> Lowenantei ruling {7 Relsen, Relse- rapidly ps0) schnell rapide publicly sted vac am der Bre natiart ” stock exchange 5 market capitalisation ‘0 Joep 29 Js Yor Altlenbérse Marktkapitalisirung | superrech,Superreicher to assess sth {ses set, bewerten, beurteten © to stand at X {9s ot bed X stehen, sich bel x befinden © underestimate ndoestnest Unterschatzung, Unterbewertung “3Eran) In 2019, the airline carried its 100 mil- lionth passenger, this time celebrating the event with women dressed more riosest lye in Kimonos. In a®, the company now ‘employs around 2,000 people. It serves" 17 locations within Vietnam and a further 23 international destinations in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and ‘Thailand, Is current fleet comprises fs, mostly Airbus A320. A321-200, Orders for the f2ulty® Boeing 737 Max are on hold, but it looks Tike Vietlet has yet to reach maximum tudes and is sure to expand its fleet and global footprint, having access to half the world’s population within a 2,500-mile radius, Thinking Big’ Neuyn Thi Phuong Thao is a woman who doesn't do things by halves and you . believe she will achieve tom She is whatever she 9) quoted as saying Thave always aimed big and done big deals. I have never done anything on a small scale, When people were trading one modestly ost beschelden © inal > nagesamt, im Ganzen ‘to serve sth anfliegen to comprise X X umfassen aircraft © order > >( Bestllang faulty felt tobe on hold legen altitude = © global footprint Fulbabdruck to think big (sondern) Klotzen inclined to do sth ‘ene, et. 2u tun ‘to put one’s mind to sth Flugzeug aut Eis Hohe slobaler nicht Kleckern, 44 laine [of goods], J was already trad: ing hundreds of containers.” Not conte s nto the Vietlet t . Ms Thao has been branching out™ through her com pany Sovico Holdings, which is likely to project her tov* a stratospheric level of wealth. It has ovinership™ of, among others, Ho Chi Minh Development ji ‘ow Commercial Bank (HDBank), Vietjet Aviation JSC, Phu Long fea) ‘e% Corporation, Saigon Vi Na Land JSC. The company | ies but focuses on four areas: banking and finance, aviation, real estate and indus- tty. The last of these sectors includes nelectric™ power projects, investments inthermal and solar power plants™, as well as oil and gas exploration in partnership ‘with Petro Vietnam and other internation- al companies, In real estate, a major investment is Dragon Riverside City in Ho Chi Minh City. The project is described as planned to be “a city inside a city”, and will comprise |vxury™ apartments, a shopping ma!!™, a five-star interna- tional convention centre, f-classt* of- fice ve and a 53-floor tower. It is now becoming clear that the air- line was just a for the de ‘velopment of a far more ambitious 25 sich aut etw, konzentieren "sb is quoted assaying ve o> S00 J win ior rit don Wortn © container oni" Container, Behalter content with th : zatieden mit tw ‘to put all one's eggs in one basket 2» sk alles auf ene Karte setzen to branch out i verzweigen, ‘Tatigeit ausweiten to project sb to sth id. irgendwo hinschleudern stratospheric tr stratospharisch ™ ownership oop Eigentum, Besitz folio", As she is already the wealthi est self-made woman in Southeast Asia, you can realistically expect her to con- tinue to aspire to™ conquer the business world. © joint stock 300 Aktonkaptal realestate se tmobile © to have a finger in many ples ; Uberall seine Hand im Splat haben “hydroelectric hydroetektriseh © thermal power plant Wrmekraftwerk © unary or Lapse ‘mall Einkaufszentrum © avclass 0 0s de Sptzenkdasse ~ accommadation 1 Unterbringung, Unterkunft launch pad i “asst portfolio ==" Vermagenswertportfoio, m to aspire todo sth (v2 anstreben, etw. zu tun Startrampe Portefeuile,Eran Happy or Not? If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, but what if you are not? Janet Sandford explains how two young Finns turned their frustration into’ an award- winning? multimillion-dollar? business. ‘of many people, shopping is one ‘to turn sth into sth to 7s * disgusted cist empa, of their favoun 1 active lo sy etm. in etm verwandelny angewidert ites, but on occasion® the cus umwandeln "to express sth tw. tomer care leaves a lot to be award-winning 7 ausdreken desirecs, Whether you are delights" or preisgekrént © gook 0 Computertreak Jisqustect by the service you receive, you. ° mulimillion-dllar misrulsn coe”) von taf Perso don’t always have the opportunity to © mehreren Milionen Dollar Mitarbeiter ess" your feelings. Such was the case “leisure les Felzelt "annoyance 0s Verdrgerung, ‘of Heikki Vasindnen, who, as a teenage IT on occasion on 23" Argernis geek felt he was badly treated by <‘0/"" — gelagentlch to stay with sb 5 sor sad Sita in a local electronies shop, who either ig-*sth leaves alot tobe desired 533) beschatigen, bei jdm, bleiben nored him or were rude, The memory of (29/0150) ots etw, Mss vel zu “to convert sth into sth (> ka! his annoyance stayee with him, but he winschen dbrig 81) ta Sry etme tw umwandey ‘was able to convert itinto™asolution. » delighted sar erfreut, begelstert verwandeln 45Eras Some ten years later, in 2008, along with a friend and colleague, Ville Levaniemi, he set up HappyOrNot. The money to found the company came from the sale of an earlier yorture”, Universomo Ltd. ~ ‘a video game development company they had created based in Tampere, Finland, which they sold to the California-based" THQ Ine. They produced games for pr Ligious® companies such as Sega, Disney, ‘Warner and Lucas Arts, and so made 3 (=¥ bob on the sale. Simplicity Itself ‘The idea for the venture was so simple that it was @ wonder that® nox body had come up with such a product before, but their i revealed that no one had. They ereated a customer fee back terminal with four buttons, as they felt two would be too limited and three would cline people fo" choose the mide dle button. The terminals invite custom- cers to rato their satisfaction by pressing one of the siey faces: dark green for very happy, light green for quite happy, pink for a litle unhappy and red for very "unhappy. 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Hefernzur Vertigung stellen “it is no surprise tha. 12990 Spat Cet es Uberrascht nicht, dass. “to star off with sth f9 so ‘tw, anfangen impressive: p= beeindruckend * annual turnover 20 Jahresumsatz sare Marke remarkable achievement accolades * mileage ‘i Leistung ath is as fs ymit 1 emerkernswert Lelstung, Erfolg we Auseichnungen > Kilometerstand, it goes t tw, hat seine Grenzen erreicht enterprising ©9910 unternehmersch, ‘geschattstachtig nat on your nelly! kannst du lange warten! Darautda. Pushit 12 They ate not laurels but are 19 their bn0 and looking for new opportunities, The product has been lied out* to be used for employee sat tion ©, and their feedback tools ‘can also be used for websites and mobile applications Although the pair of founders are now 140, they remain very much dig- ital natives and in their ke are mostly held via which focus Tess on pri 1 the numbers but exploring new ide- as and opportunities. Whatever they come up with next, you can't help that it will be a massive success, Expandinom the range of custom- er information that can be gathered, one Of the more recent innovations is its - ation solution which the company says is “designed 10 help managers and front THEY ARE NOT RESTING ON THEIR LAURELS BUT ARE STRETCHING THEIR BRAND AND LOOKING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES. to push on voranteeiben to reat on ss laurels weltergehen, sich auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruhen TCT ae CO ees Eran “brand stretching Markendehnung *to roll sth out Markt bringen | * employee satisfaction Mitarbeiterztrodenheit survey <> Umfrage, Studie be touching x sich X ndhern, fast XJahre at sin * to remain “ progressive fortschrittich outlook ok Perspektive, Aussicht to hold a meeting cin Treffen abhalten © conference call Telekonferenz “to pore over sth ew, ‘durehgehen, an etw.arbeiten © 3b can't help but feel x rman kann nicht anders, als Xu fihien tw, auf den bleiben “to expand sth et, cerweiter,ausweiten © reabtime Echtzeit “collaboration ‘Zusammenarbelt “front-tine fan der Front 47Eras use data to detect™ issues as soon as they 21ise%, communicate respons et intemally®, and then act t0 rectify them.” Tt-can be used to notice and respond in real time to smiley "spikes", for example, ‘where there are suicdeniya disproportion ate" number of presses ofa particular but- ton, typically negative. This could be =¢ tributed tom a long queue at an airport, a particularly unhelpful member of staff or missing stack items on a shelf. As well as solving such problems in the here and nov the data can also be used to design such problems out So, the next time you passthrough cus ‘omst and are asked to press a smiley (0 rate your experience, you will be able to tell your travelling companions - did you know this all started with poor customer care in an electronics shop in Tampere, Finland? Apparently, the shop that pro- ‘vided the inspiration for HappyOrNot has since c/osed down It seems that custom- es, while unable to press smiley to ex- press their cssatisaction®, BEM TEST @ Incredible Idioms Match the idioms from the text with the correct definition. * special honour sp) 2) besondere AuszsichnunglEhre * enterprise r/o: Unternehmen » moderate (> besehelden, imittelmsig, angemessen «te gain sth from sth © o21 Sine Fron ‘etm, von tw, gewinnen, von etw. 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Don't get spooked, mployers know all about the * of Gen Y andl Gen Z. workers The newest dilemma: young em Ployees * ” ther bosses and simply not “when they ‘want to 59, What ies behind this end, and can managers 0. these ghosts?» to exorcise sth tw sustreben resignation noice Kandigung(ssehreiben) » common courtesy Notichet, suter Ton “troubling 1» Beunruhigend Fis in Xo Anstig nx * without prior warning ‘ohne Vorwarnung to send shivers down sb’s spine jdm. einen Schauer ther den Ricken jagen * Don't get spooked! Erschrecken Sie nicht! * peril 1 Gah, Risiko hosting o>» Ghosten (den Kontakt mit jd, abrupt abbrechen) "to show up to work beliaut der Arbeit erscheinen toresign Kindigen tobust sb jd angen, hochgehen lassen ransons A Pernicious Phantasm'® Recruiters and managers alike are dealing witha growing number of young candidates and workers who are opting to blow off work* without giving anyone else 2 headsup. Candidates for new po- sitions will schedule job interviews and refrain from* showing up. No advance phone calls or emails are given. Similarly, ‘workers in existing positions will vanish" from work instead of notifying any super ‘or of their intentions, More and more employees prefer disappearing in a puff of smoke. This practice lets young pro- fessionals stay in their comfort zones, but it leaves managers scratching their heads, Younger folks» call it ghosting. The erm was originally coined to describe those in the online dating community who cut off all contact with an undesir ‘abje™ sultor® and just remain silent. They don’t have to be the bearer of bad news and break up with* anyone online, On the “pernicious 92'njos Sehdeh, bésartig © phantasm enes\0)= Hlrgespins, ‘Trugbild "Xand ¥ alike 20914 und ¥ sleichermasen "to deal with sth £9! ya sn sich mit tw, beschaftigen, mit et. 2u tun haben "to low off wor boy onde Job abblasenischmelBen to give sb heads-up 19 dm, eine Vorwarnung geben to schedule sth to esi! in festlegen, planen to retrain from doing sth 9 en ory ‘vn davon Abstand nehmen, et 2u tun tw, * advance 20 von: woraus, vorherig © to-vanish (2 von versehwinden superior «port Wongesetateye to notify sb of sth to nova sumad 2 jdm, etw, ankindigen/mittelien ™ intention ep Absicht, Intention 40 disappear ina puff of smoke so ih in Lutleiner Rauchwolke aufbsen comfort zone kin + Komfortzone 50 Gen Z Features When were 1995-2015 they bom? (roughly) How do they Individually like to work? What is their Mobile phone 20-10 tool? What moti- Stability vates them? What's their Naturally personality Competitive like? contrary they become a ghost. Now, youngsters aren't contin their private lives. hosting has officially entered the work- place, According to USA Today, between 20 and 50 percent of all job epplicants to leave sb scratching thelr head {9 spot Sa 2891) es Kopfhratzend) lente zuricklassen folks oie Leute erm (9 Begett to coin th (on nn tw. prgen online dating ‘o> or Her Singlebérse, Oniine-Dating to cutoff contact with sb ( kat den Kontakt mt jdm. abbrechen undesirable ya: stig, unerwinseht 0) Werebrer "the bearer of bad news 9 Se5 9 Uberbringerschlechter Nachrichten to break up with sb Is bres no wi sb iit dm. Schluss machen on the contrary 0 9 ‘© techsavyy bed Im Gegenteit, 1s computerertahren ‘youngster 0 Jugendlichele “© behaviour b=1>()Verhaten “to confine sth to sth f kan svn tw. af tw. beschranken “job applicant Jobbewerber “in some way, shape or form 19s es, Vin irgendeiner Form “as sh puts it. ausdract, wie jd. es and employees have ghosted in some way shape or form#, AS Amanda Bradford, CEO of dating app The League, puts i “no responses is response” for younger cohorts, (Old-school employers see this trend as sownrighte dastardly, Certain countries legally require a rnin ru ‘but no such law exists in the United States, for example. There, a two-weeks’ notice is treated as an unwritten rules, but more workers appear to be throwing this norm to the curb, When it comes to skipping job interviews, no country is safe. The prob- lems are manifole™. The entire hiring pro- cess is prolongec™. Time, money and re- sources are wasted when professionals refuse to directly convey their decisions to™ employers. Neverheless™, companies are unlikely to get much sympathy fro supporters of ghosting. '\s for 2s these peo- ple ore concerned, companies have been failing to contact candidates after job inter- views for decades. Ghosting is just a way to return the favour ice period, “response 1900s Antwort, Reaktion cohorts o> Kohorten, Gruppen downright oo" geradezu, voli ® dastardly ‘00 fege, heimtickisch © minimum notice period ‘mura noes 1 Mindestkindigungstrist unwritten rule /0/ ungeseheleben eset © to throw sth to the curb 9 Bi saniN ‘ctw. wegwerten to skip sth sip sausen lassen manifold = mannigfalti, vila © prolonged 02 lon vertingert © to refuse todo sth & 0 weigern etw.zu tun "to convey sth to sb fo jm. ctw, dbermitelnverstandlich machen ‘nevertheless 00 es nlehtsdestotrote © to get sympathy from sb I> get sp fom "sod Merstandnis von jdm. bekommen ‘as far as sb is concerned. 7 sas was jd bet “to raturn the favour {9909 revanchieren| ) tw. ausass wl) schASinister® Spectre* So why is ghosting so ct-behind-the-ears workers? It may be nothing more than 2 sign of the times®. Paradoxically enough, a booming global ‘economy has emboliened” workers to seek their dream jobs. If an employer comes up short in any given area, just quit. There are plenty of other jobs out there, so why settle»? At the end of 2019, the USA was experiencing an unemployment rate of 3.6 percent, its lowest in nearly (wo dee: des, The UK is having its best employ- ‘ment numbers in 40 years. Even the EU ‘unemployment rate of 6.3 percent is 2 re rd Lows, In a nutshell office workers have 2 slut of options before them, and they cean pick and choose” which opportuni- ties to pass vor with hardly any nega- tive rami *. In countries like the USA, there are more job vacancies than "unemployed workers, so quitting a job is relatively risk-‘ree, Resignation rates are © sinister sn) bse, inte spectre Spe) Gespenst, Geist © appealing to sb 2:9 Sambo relavol attaktiv ‘wetsbehind-the-ears vet bin 2 mach srinvnicht trocken hinter den Ohren sein "a sign ofthe times 9 sa Zelchen der Zit, Ziterscheinung © paradoxically odo! paradoxerwelse © booming." Boomend,frierend, bluheng to embolden sb ermutigen "to come up short 9 eefillen, 2u kurt kommen "imany given area ego ors lrgendelnem beiebigen Bereich to settle [9 st abkldren,regeln, bellegen unemployment rate 0:0 Arbeltsosenquote a record low » ek Rekoritiefstand) ina nutshell mit einem Wort a glut of sth 20) anetw. on ‘simbadl | et let In knappen Worte 29 Uberangebot 41 PERCENT OF WORKERS CONSIDERED GHOSTING EMPLOYERS TO BE TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE. earing® alltime highs, and a 2018 re- port from the US Labor Depa cated that roughly two-thirds of all of- fice departures were totally voluntary Tn many cases, candidates win up receiv- ing multiple offers, soa number of viable ent ind ™ to pick and choose sth 9 pik and ur v8 wahlecsch vorgehen to pass sth up verzichten = hardly ho kau © ramifications =" Avswirkungen Job vacancy 0300 Veta © rilefree sot “to near sth 3 9 tw. her ‘kommen, sich etw. annahern allie high (01 0 Altaathoch "Labor Department ‘ai apa ‘Arbeltsministerium to Indleate (et andeuten, zeigen “roughly departure ci andigung "voluntary sn = Folgen, {releiottene stelle ungefahr Abgang, freiniig to wind up doing sth sd 99 '8u3n am Ende tw. tun © lable ors) maehbar, realistisch to got the short end of the stick ‘9 get 1009 0 0 den Kieren 2lehen auterdem, furthermore (=< usétalich rans ‘employers naturally have to get the short nore the corporate employee ‘of 2020 has a set of values that can’t re- ally be compared to that of earlier genera- tions. From an o © point of view, the youth™ of taday have got their priorities all out of whack. While this claim is <- batable, there are generational differences that can’t be ignored. A survey cond 20m by research firm Clutch found that 4 percent of workers considered ghost- ing employers to be totally acceptable, Simultancousiys, 35 percent of these very seme people believe that itis ut Unreasonable for employers to ghost ap- plicants. Popular reasons for ghosting were receiving a competino™ job offeror finding {a job to be 2 poor fit, Meanwhile, others perceive mllennials™ and younger profes- sionals 2s injverentiy fearing confron- tation of any kind. Why risk disappointing ‘or upsetting someone by telling them of ‘your intentions to quit when you ean qui- cetly vanish without a tracem. » old-timer 20 tors) alter Has Senior the youth 8 le Jugend © out of whack “aus dem Gieichgenient debatable «eto umatritten, ragwirdig survey “ves Umfrage, Studie to conduct sth 9 on ew durehthren elute Kupplung, Grif, Fang, cluten "simultaneously sn/einis= gllehzetig the very same X 22 vcr sir ebendieselben x utterly absolut, vat ‘ uneeasonable 9h unangemessen, tunverschimt competing >) kankurleren, Konkurent- a poor ft» oo it schlecht passen, ungeeignet sein millennial 9 e00 Mlenma Ud, ‘wischen 1980 und 2000 geboren ist) to perceive sh a5 X's pasts als X empfinden/wahrnehmen inherently ho grundstaieh, am sich © to upset sb dn. verirgern without a trace 1 99 vers spurs jn. cyons Whether or not you can fathom the idiosyncrasies of today’s young professionals, ghosting is here ta stay for now, Managing the Ghosting Menace! If companies want to tackle™ the thorny subject of ghosting, they aren’t helpless. Managers ave an ara "tools at their disposal to indidates or employees {101m cis om into the night. * your on boarding process, for example, ean wor pat + menace ‘nero Bedrohung, Gefahr to tackle sth shy et anpackeny In Angrif nehmen "thorny &5"i elke, haarig,stachelig entirely 1 vali, volkommen an array of sth 27 290 sy ane Relhe von eta. ‘to have sth at one’s disposal t2 hav sn 2 etw zur Verfigung haben "to discourage sb from doing sth Is ds avis bow for Gin sani fd. entmutigen, ‘etw. zu tun "to dissipate 9 sci sleh aufésen ‘to tweak sth iy ew optimieren to work wonders ‘>> wine Wunder wieken " toextend sth (tend sndin ete, vertinger to forge a bond ' ine Bindung schmieden/aufbauen "© to determine © ds ermitteln, {eststellen 52 onders%, Starting onboarding earlier and extending it beyond the first cou- ple months of employment ean forge an emotional bon that keeps an employee in place. One study determines that 77 percent of new hires are willing to accept a Tower storting salary" if the employer made an outstanding™ first impression™, Managers ought to reach out fo™ workers before their first day on the job. After an new hire |) never Angestliter © starting salary a Einstiegsgehalt, Anfangsgehatt “ outstanding sot bn herausragend, hervorragend to make a first impression {ones test rope einen ersten Eindruck machen hinteriassen to reach out to sb (> jdm. in Kontakt treten "subordinate Untergebeneit to alter sth tv 9 ‘etm nd to accommodate sth 1 2: n ‘tw bellegen, anpassen nowadays hheutzutage one-on-one wo wn Eimeelgesprich “to wreak havoc {9 evs werheerende ‘Schdden anviehten © to proceed {2 0125 ablaufen, stattfinden, weltergehen “progressively > 0-50 aunehmend, ‘employee's frst year, superiors should still initiate conversations with au ‘o show the company is still invested inthe {eam member's success. In addition, certain companies have 2 tored™ their recruitment processes to ac imodate™ the ghosting phenomenon. Group job interviews are a popular option ys, Booking one-on-one job in- terviews and getting ghosted could wreak © on an organization. If one cand date ghosts a group interview, however, much fewer resources are wasted and the interview can more or less proceed as planned. Beginning with a larger pool of candidates and p the number dow tions, (One final tactic a number of firms have ‘eployec against ghosting was borrowed directly from the airline industry. Knowing that a handful of passengers are miss any given flight, airlines cole flights and sell more tickets than there are seats on a plane, vein", companies can “overbook” speci ic positions to ensure™ ghosts don’t dev astetew an organization. For instance, a company needing 15 new engineers would hire 20 recruits instead. 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Whether oF not you can fathom the idiosyncrasies™ of today’s young © ceremoniously se'nsonss flertch to come out ontop sich ‘durchsetzen als Bester abschnelden "assortment of sth 9'5tma03sirn ‘Auswahl/Sortiment an etw. © perk» Verginstigung, Vorteil behind the scenes ohio 5 Keulissen to ook out for sth eo aut ‘ctw. aufpassen/achten, nach etw. Ausschau alten eerie" unheimlic, gruselig © gaffe o= Pateer, Fauxpas to do sth out of X td 5 hinter den a oka fa machen aus X malice ies Boshelt to fathom sth fo 20am sanain ete usloten,ergrnden,begreifen idiosynerasy 2902s Eigenart, Besonderheit is hore to stay.. Daver to get bogged down in sth to: bo00 doen sich be etw. in (den) Einzelelten verzetteln to boost sth {bust Stn ew. Frdern, (veristarken, errohen © retention > Erhat,Festhalten to morph sth (9a: st, vverwandeln, umwandeln, andern © to creep somewhere 2 lrgendwohinscheichen, Ieiechon to got left behind 2 et et has 2urickgelassen/abgehingt werden hold sex ge voR professionals, ghosting is here to stay" for ‘now. Managers shouldn't g2t 039s down inv the ethics of ghosting. On the contrary, boosting™ worker retention" and system= tically morphino™ the recruitment process rans could be the best way to bust these ghosts, Nevertheless the fact that a trend from so- cial media can creep into the workplace should serve as a warning to managers— adaptor get left behinds, m BEM TEST q@ Phenomenal Phrasal Verbs Match the following phrasal verbs from the text with the correct definition. Show up Blow something off Break up with, Come up short Pass something up Wind up Reach out to) *to nat sth suet simon atm anfangen, ins Leben rufen to dismiss sth f is mss sansin et, ablehnen,aufgeben ® arrangement 2010372 Abmachung, Vereinbarung obligation 9 [> PMleh Verpfichtung to end up © = > lrgendvo) enden * gradually 0/210) sehritweise, allmahlich "49 fall to do sth 9 f 9c sun ete ict schatfen \ntiate* contact with someone Dismiss or jgnore an orrangement® or obligation End uptin a specific situation Gractullyt make something smaller Foil for reach a goal ‘Arrives Be permanentiy abandoned ‘Make sure that something is ‘2/2 core of Enda lot ship Decline an offer, fil to take advantage o™ something, to arrive (90 elntreten,ankommen * permanently == dauerhaf, sting abandoned 2 70-0 verassen, sitzengelassen, "to take care of sth Is ek e309 sin sich um ew. kimmern jonship 0) Bexlehung to decline sth &9 03 ablennen, “to take advantage of sth i ec odvonts oy sop leh et zumutze machen 53TRAVEL Chile: At the End of the Earth Chile is a mighty" long way from Europe, but its spectacular scenery? makes it well worth’ the journey. Hop on board as Janet Sandford takes us to the end of the earth. Republic of Chile + Area: 756,096 sq km, + Capital: Santiago + Population: 17.9 million + Ethnicity 88.9% Westioo" and white 9.1% Mapuche 0.7% Aymara 1.0% other incigenous* groups 0.3% unspecific? ‘+ Government: "ary presidential + Major language: Spanish + Major religion: Christianity Le expectancy 77 years (men), 82 years (women) + Currency: Chilean peso “+ Driving side: right + Calling code: +56 ‘ mestizo Mestize * indigenous 3312 ndigan, einheimisch,eingeboren » unspecified vs let ner speziiziertiangegebenvbeschrieben “unitary 9 zentalisiseh, Finhets- * constitutional republic ons \ konstitutionelle Republi “fe expectancy |i (durchschnitiche) Lebenserwartung 54 snesencusimtramsvcar00hile has rather unusual pro- portions, * between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andest to the east, itis 4,270 km long north to south, 356 km at its widest point and a » 64 km at its narrowest point. It is * in the north by Peru and Bolivia, and on the east by Argentina. At the far south-east of the country lies the *, with access to the Atlantic Ocean, Chile's national teritory includes the Juan Femdndez Islands, " and other Pacific islands. The country also i é One theory of the origin of the coun- tuy’s name is that it * the * Mapuche people and their ‘word chill, meaning where the land ends, It is certainly an apt description,» scenery well worth sth sehr macht, gewaltig,verdammt Landschatt tw lant sich “to hop on board autspringen to wedge sth somewhere tw, irgendvoeinkellen fle Anden mountain range Andes Bergkatte os mere x to border sth angrenzen * Strat of Magellan Magellanstrate Easter stand to lay claim to sth out ‘tw. Anspruch anmeldenferheben Antarctic Peninsula Antartische Habinsel bo8inur x anetw. sterinset “origin 0703" Ursprung, Merkuntt to derive from sth von tw. entstammenvabstammen * indigenous Indigen, einhelmisch apt 0 gesigne, passend Cea oo) tre 55TRAVEL From Spain, it takes around 13 hours to travel over 10,000 km to get there. The time zone is four hours earlier than Central European time, so, with the journey time and clack reset, some initia! disorienta ‘on™ and jet lag are inevitable ut and About®in Santiago Arriving at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, you will experience heavy security and 29929 checks® with sniffer doos". Once through, ‘you will likely catch a taxi for the 15-km Tide to your accommodation’ im down town Santiago, It ight be ise to" grab Abit of shut eye before negotiating™ the bousting® streets, which seem very dense |y= populated. Compared to™ many South ‘American cities, itis relatively safe, but ‘you'll need to be on the lookout for pick pockets and to keep your wits about you in the busy Plaza de Armas. There and ‘around, a must-see spectacie™ are the re ‘markable® Chinchineros, who spin around” like whirling dervishese while playing ‘a bass drum mounted on their backs, ‘which they play with sticks, accompanies by* cymbal playing via a rope tied to their feet. You get 22) just watching. For a more sedate# experience and some city centre tvanquillty*, you could ‘walk up the nearby Santa Lucia Hill, or slightly further away, San Crist6bal Hill, from where, on a clear day, you can en Joy stunninos views of the city and the “Andes beyond. While not the most beau- tiful of eties, some of the «istrict are at- tractive and interesting to explore. Barrio Bellavista is a bohemian" district to hang out in, with trendy bars and restaurants. It is also home to* an array of amazing mu ‘os and painted buildings, where artists have been hired by the owners to make their buildings attractive. Barrio Paris-Londres could deceive you Into thinking» you had been transported to the 1920s Latin Quarto of Paris, but Calle Londres 38/40 is a former jail and torture (acy, used during the Pinochet regime. Outside, you will find plaques" on the pavement to people who perished 56 there. As you may be aware, Chile still experiences some social unres%, particu- larly in the capital, where there have been jlse and battles with police. Such events are sporadic and could occur during your visit, im which case, itis wise to ove the centre in particular, 9 wide bert". The eap- ital is worth checking out, but you will soon Want to move on to explore the rest of the country. Exploring West Just 100 km to the west of Santiago ‘on the Pacific Ocean lies Valparaiso. It is famous form its steep hillside lo- cation adorned” by brightly coloured buildings. Local sea temperatures range from 15°C to 20°C, so you don't need to bbe a masochist to take a dio" at the lo- cal beach. Speaking of temperatures, re- ‘member that Chile’s summer and winter “reset »/ so Nachstellng, Reset, Neustart > ial antinglich © deorentatin i nt Desorientiertheit Inevitable 20! unvermelaieh out and about oon = 0! unterwegs ® baggage check 29: /% Gepackkontralle siler dog (dog Sprhund, Polizeihund » accomadation» (ore Unterkunt downtown ‘ison Stadtgentrum, city Hels wise todo sth 112 229 8 Snip as {atratsam, etw,2utun to grab sth & gb Sn sich et schnappenigreifen © shuteye | Sela, Nickerchen >to negotiate sth» goo sin et, rnehmen, bewaltigen sting" gesehattlg, ems, lebhatt 2 donsely os! dicht ® compared to sth verglichen mit tw. to be on the lookout for sb (bon vs 1) soa auf der Hut sin vor ém, © plekpocket is Taschendeb to keop one's wits about them {>i soo let dan Kopf verieren mustsee sys = et, muss man gesehen haben spectacle “sls Spektakel, Aniblck remarkable 2/00) bemerkenswert, ‘auBergewahnlich to spin around (9 sp 9 0 herumwirbeln, sich drehen © whiting 9 wiebelnd S derish «> Derwlseh ‘ass drum 5 0 Basstrommel, Bassdrum “tw mount th t9 mont simi etme befestigen, montieren, anbringen * accompanied by sth» sid bat sintin vverbunden mit etw, begleitet von etu. “dizzy i sehwindelig, benommen © sedate so ruhig, golassen tranquility 292 Rue, Stile * stunning =) atemberaubend, umwerfend * district (istic Stadtel, Vert "bohemian dso -o 57 Kinsten: to hang out somewhere toy oo Irgendwo abhingenirumhingen to be home to sth (25 hou sim et. beheimaten * mural 900! Wandgemade * to deceive sb into thinking that. 9 ‘bee nto Sink Std et glauben machen * quarter former 3 ‘chomaliger *falty 50 inlehtung ® plaque pik Gedenktafel ‘pavement enon! Gehweg to prish i> po umkommen, sos) etal ‘riherer, sterben unrest: Unruhe © rot >t Aufstand, Randalle, Krawall © sporadic spo: sporadisch,unregelmsig * to give sth a wide berth t9 01 5 0 et, woltrdumig umfahron sto check sth out 2 Yo sb ‘ausprobieren testen * famous for sth “eins ‘rtwegen etw. steep sip stell hillside =» Berghang "to adorn sth (950 Sind ‘chmiicken, dekorieran "to take ap > fk op ln Bad nehmen tw. ‘ot rahe ew.occur at times to the northern Average temperatures re- main Jv-twenties throughout the ‘year, but there are considerable differ- fences in the cold south and hot north, and in tude”, January to May are the wettest months, while August through to November is very dry. South It doesn’t m: 20 t0 Chile fora beach holiday when there is so much ‘unusual geography on offer. Coming south, you can find the Take re- gion, where you can enjoy watersports and the outdoor life around Lakes Villarrica and Collico and national parks ‘The Maule swine region is lo- cated around 100 kms north of the port city of Concepeién. the vi . you will o the m town of Chilldn, with its tinctiver ehureh that resembles an hangar (000 km south of Valpairso lies Laguna San Rafael National Park, the San Rafael Glacier. It is only ac cessible by boat so you will need a guid- ed oat tour. Torres del Paine is a national park in the far south of Patagonian Chile and features mountains, lakes and gl ciers as well. But if you want to go pen- guin spotting™, you have to see the Los opposite o>" entgegengesetzt, ummgekent hemisphere Halbkugel in the mid x Mitte x considerable beachitich, erheblch in terms of sth Inpenug aut tw. aetude Hohe to make sense todo sth es macht Sinn, etw. 2u tun on offer im Angebot temperate gematigt adjacent angrenzen benachbart valley 5 Tal sich aut etw. zubewegen vineyard Weinberg 2g aut etw. stoBen familiar sounding bekannts vertrautKingend distinctive charakteristsch, ‘unverwecheelbar to resemble sth ahneln aircraft 00 Flugzeug to feature sth tw, arstellen,autwelsen slacler Gletseher X-spotting soon Xteobachten porcine 37TRAVEL Pingilinos Natural Monument, which is home to more than 120,000 ” penguins. Itis located on the one square kilometre Magdalena Island in the Strait of Magellan, North Going to the other to the © Magellanic Magellan- “extreme sr Extrem ald 1) ausgetrocknet,trocken landscape Landschatt © apty named passend/gecignet benannt 58 north of the country towards the border ‘with Bolivia, you will encounter the arc of the Atacama Desert, fea- turing the w Valle de la Luna, an area of sand dunes* and that resemble the moon. Also in the north, you will find Reserva Nacional Las dune si0 Bane stone formation Steinformation vibe v0 Stimmung, Geta herd bo Hard, Rul ~ guanaco ‘Guanako Vicurias where you will get the real South American vibe with hers of the cu- rious but shy ouanacos™ and of the Mama. For m, the nearby Salar de Surie is a vast home to flocks of “ flamingos. * vcuna Vikunja “close relative rahe Verwandter Vogelbeobachter sale fat Sawiste © flock Vo Merde, Sehar “resplendent “birder strahlend, prichtigEast And that ends our tour - well, not quite, ‘We couldn’t possibly leave Chile without visiting the Andes. This spectacular moun tain range could justify holiday in itself but some of the highlights are as follows: Lauca National Park in the north fea- tures voleanos up to 6,000 metres 2 wand one of the world’s highest lakes, Lake Chungari. ‘The highest point of the Andes, rally only tom experienced climb- ets, is Ancongagua, standing at” 6,960 ‘metres above sea level. However, it just over the border in Argentina, there are many tours offered from Santiago to this region, but high alti- tude could be a consideration” for people with heart or breathing concltions" Ifyou make a spiritual connection, a good choice is the Elqui Valley in the Coquimbo region in the Andean foothills. Known for its spiritu- al harmony, it is being dubbed the new Tibet. For its cryst skies make ita popular astrotourism desti- nation. Itis also good for jsncicras™ and to justify sth tw rechtertigen highlight io Mdhepunkt above se level Siber dem Meeresspieget "accessible to sb 2ugnglch fir jan. ‘to stand at X stohenisich befinden bel x 0 neste sich anschmiegen, es sich gemitlich machen nisten ow nonetheless nichtsdestotrotz consideration Bericksichtigung, Abwagung © contin |oni> Uelden, Zustand, Konditon ™ tobe loking to do sth ‘gedenken,etw. 2u tun pital splrituel, geistlich,geistig to dub sth sth ew. tw taufen might ow 9 9) Maehteule = crystal-clear seistaliklar © handicrafts Mandarbeit, Kunsthandwerk os Earthquakes ay come as something a ‘(literally but there is a chance that you will experience some kind of earthquake during your visit to Chile. Chile is located om a tectonic plate bounsiary* and a subduction zone ealled the Peru-Chile trenci. A subduction zone is where the 0° * slides lunder the continen 1 Which causes compre mation? (mountain building), carthquakes and volcanos. (Source: Earlham College), According to Earthquake Track, Chile experienced $76 earthquakes in the 365 days leading up to 29th February 2020, with the strongest being sgntude® 6.8 in San Antonio, Valparaiso. The co2st2} town is something of an earthquake which can also be accompanied by tsunami warnings. However, itis worth de2ring in mins that many buildings are designed to stars earthquakes, and Chilean people are extremely well prepared for such events, meaning that a higher magnitude ou=\e® which right prove ‘ot in another country could be experienced without serio Should you find yourself in an earthquake: ‘Indoors: drop to the ground or fo something strong table, Do not leave the building or use the lift. In shops: stay inside but move 2 © glass cabinets, fridges and heavy fixtures or fittings + Outdoors: move away from buildings, street lights and over 0” or get under a » cables. fe may come as something ofa shock. sich an etw. festhalten es mag © fe fest hart (9 move away from tectonic plate boundary sth tektonische Plattengrenze sich von > subduction zone ctw. entfermen, Subduktionsrone fcture “trench Graben festes inventar, * ocean crust zeankruste, fest eingebauter cozeanische Kruste GGegenstand * continental margin * fitings Kontinentalrand Eiprichtung, ‘compressional deformation Zuber Kompressionsdleformation ‘overhead * magnitude Starke, Ausma® __oberirdsch, oben, * coastal Uberkopf- gelegen “hotspot po Zentrum, Schwerpunkt, Hotspot ™to bear sth in mind sich etw, vor Augen halten = to withstand sth tw. widerstehen, standhalten ® quake (=i Beben “fatal 0 bleh * serious injury Schwerverletzung to hold onto sth 59TRAVEL swine tours, while for culture buts", the ‘small commune” of Viewfais famous for being the birtiplace™ of the national poet ‘and Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral. Sadly, your holiday is over and itis time to take the long haul” back to Europe. The 200d news is that you will enjoy breath taking views of the Andes on your way back, your head will be filed with dreams of parading penguins, lazy Hamas and earth tremors™ masquerading as ar tur- bulence. Oc butt Fan comme Monje Kommee birthplace o> pe Geburtsort © long haul >| Fornstrecke, Langstrecke breathtaking 0s) atemberaubend to parade © p> stoleieren, paradieren earth tremor 2") Endato® © to masquerade as sth (9,0 3 Sich als etw. ausgebenimaskieren BEM TEST @ Amazing Adjectives Match the adjectives from the text with the correct definition. 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There are many dorstand earthy? wotking-lassrestaue rants, Here are some Chilean favourites Empanadas - ubiquitous pastry parce's" typically filled with pino, Which is a mixture” of minced meat, onions, raisins, black olives and hrs bolled cogs, Variations include diced beef or seafood. Always a substantia snack. ‘Completo-i another monster snack comprising amasive hot dog in aur * strenuous strapaziés * sightseeing 0510) Beslehtigung von Sehenswirdigkeiten * hiking von Wander “to burn sth of i929 sn verbrennen, abbrennen *euisine 9 Kehe * street vendor = StraBenhandler, verter earthy = uri, derb, erg * working-class. 2407 Ho's Arbelterkasse * empanadas mp2 (eflite Teigtaschen) ‘ubiquitous 50" allgegenwarti, omniprasent pastry Gebick ' parcel po! Plckehen © mixture o>) Mischung, Gemiseh mined st gahaekt, Hack: "hard-boiled eggs hartgekochte Eier "substantial 5 eile, umfangreich, nahrhaft * to comprise sth (9 on pat centhalten, umfassen * bun b»» Brdtehen yew. Empanadas Teig,smothered int mayonnaise, tomatoes, on- ions, pickles and the kitchen sink, CChurrasco and Chacarero - only snarginally lighter, these are sand- wiches of thin- sliced (but piles nigh) sirloin® typically topped wth avocado and often served unceremoniously, om a bed of chips. ‘Sopaipillas - on many street corners, your nostrils will be a by the pungent smell ‘of hot oil, A closer look will lead you to generally shor, tou lady ‘rying sopaipillas. These are initers ‘made with pumpkin, butter and flour, To add 290", you add a sovirt™ from cone of the plastic bottles containino™ ketchup, mustard or the local fer) chili sauce called pebre. In many restaurants, is offen comes as an automatic 2¢co" paniment served in a small bow! Lomo a lo pobre - this is a plate of sliced beef, fried eggs and chips. The term a lo pobre translates as "2 poor ‘man’s? but denotes that it comes with eggs. Thus, you will also find lomito a lo pobre (p01) pollo alo pobre (chicken) ‘or churrasco a To pobre (si Pastel de Choclo - if you are looking fora non-meat-based meal, you might be » smathered in sth S500 In etw, bedeckt mit etw. ® (everything but) the kitchen sink ou 18) erie ot sin sy alles Magliche marginally 9) geengtiga, lunwesentlich, marginal to ple sth high £9 pa sin ho ete auftormen sirloin sb Rinderlende, Rinderilet to top sth with sth stop sin wad sar tw, mitetw.krdnen/abrunden » unceremoniously 192 kurzerhand, ohne Umschureife to assal sth 6950 sre tw, angreifen ® pungent 00 penetrant, schart ® stout ov krdftig,Korpulent titers (o'r Fritiertes, Schmalzgebick » navour $19" Gesehmack Sv squie sh Stra, Sehuss to contain th (2 an tean san etme t ed to» try this popular Chilean dish, ‘Think of a sort of mashed potato» mush made with com and you will be on the Fight rack On ts own, itis rather bianc® time to reach for the pebre. CCazuelas are soups or =115* that can bbe meat, such as vacuno (beef), or sea- food (mariscos), they could also come ‘with pork or chicken and all include on- ions, garlic, vegetables and seasonino You are sure to need something to wash itll down with, Here are the most cnthalten fry io four, shart accompaniment »wvrpsrinsn! 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A popular party and summer drink is Borgofia - typically a mix- ture of Chilean red wine with strawber- ry pieces added to infuse it into alight punch, Pisco Sour is a famous Chilean coc! tail (there is also a Peruvian version) which is made from Chilean Pisco bran- dy, lemon from Pica, sugar and ice. How better to end our last night in Chile than with* a Terremoto, which means ‘esythquake"? since you are left with the ground and legs feeling very shaky. The temremoto drink consists pineapple ice-cream mixed with a sweet, ‘fommentea white wine ealled pipefio and renadine, Salud! a «soaked in sth Soot n'y einge getrnkt in tw. cianamon sr Zim © drinkable oo trinkbar, sgeniesbar © chiot Haupt, wichtigste grape op Weintraube ‘variety 0 Wlefal, Viezah, Sorte to infuse sth (0 esi ete durchtrinken, aufllen * puneh / Punseh how better todo sth than with X2 betsy) ay so Soo 8 we mnt man besser etw, tun als mit X earthquake 9 Edbeben shaky 00 wackelig, trig *t0 consist of X00 aus X bestehen fermented 9 700 Fermentiort * grenadine 02 + Grenadine 61TRAVEL 2 Business Profile: Chile Investing in any South American coun- ‘ry might seem ‘dangers and ‘complications, but in many ways Chile Across many » in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, Chile + its regional for example, less corruption and great- cer business transparency. It also has the lowest *. Despite its relaive- ly low population of around 19 million people, * Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, itis an important economic player. Key 60?*el- ‘ements (the second-largest in South America) are conpe, in which it is the world’s largest exporter, lithium, fish and wine. Since 2010, the government has been on a mission to encourage foreign investment, ‘and one of the instruments it uses to do this is Start-Up Chile, which :anke< first in the region and fourth in the world on the 2015 Global Report. It offers up to USD 40,000 along with a one-year visa to foreign ‘companies in Santiago. There are also and for *, technology and setting up in rervot0% areas, Chile isa regional and international vb (having access to ©) with = 26 to be precise, and ™ * with 64 countries. They have been working t0 % the transfer of goods and ser- vices. The most obvious investment op- portunity is in tourism, with its yariec environments and vast ts ‘geography also possibili- ties in developing green energy, such as through ». Back in Santiago, import-export and business services "fraught with sth voll Gherfrachtet mit et * to buck the trend ‘rend widersetzen indicator Kennzeichen “to outstrip sb id. 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Certainly don’t say anything negative about the country, even ifthe smog and ("of"c* in Santiago cean be stlinow, It is a society built on personal honour, so you may find that ‘you will need personal recommendations land introductions when networking. Expeet closer physical proximity than typical in Western s dealings and even aug and akiss man-to-man, Taking everything i “cl could be a better business opportunity than you might assure, = to be mindful of sth ‘tw. bericksihtigr tw, beachten Nuance, Kieinigkeit os * sensitivity Empfindichkeit, “honour ©) Ehre Sensibitst networking Networking, > toiniiat sth ¥, Netzwerkbildung beginnen,anregen,intleren “ physical proximity "host Poo Gastgeber Kérpetiche Nahe © unwise» or unklug, tient “business dealings “to goin guns blazing Geschiftsbeziehungen tw. angrifslustig tun man-to-man (von) Mann zu “heritage or Erbe Mann “rightfully 1) berachtigterweise to take sth into account trafic 2 Werke ‘tw, bercksichtigenin * sting ‘sin stiekig, 2iehen exstickend to assume annehmen, “society <0! Gesellschaft vermuten BEM TEST =@) articulate Your Articles Complete the text with the missing articles. Use a, an, the and x(no article). ‘Across many indicators in 1) World Bank's Doing Business Report, Chile « * its regional *, in, for example, less corruption and 2. greater business transparency. It also has 3) lowest 9 +, Despile® its relatively low population of around 19 million people, it is 4) important economic player. Key GD?* elements (5) sec: ondé-largest per capi” in South America) are copper, in which its 6) world’s largest exporter lithium, fish and wine. Since 2010, 7) govern ‘ment has been on 8), mission to encourage foreign investment, and one of 9) instruments it uses to do this is Start-Up Chile, which rankec! first in 10) region and fourth in 11) world on 12) 2015 Global Accelerator” Report “indeator Hinweis, Indikator ——* copper 02 Kupfer *to outstrip sb dn, "ton X =) aUFX rangieren ‘iberMligelnvin den Schatten stellen accelerator Beschleuniger * competitor Konkurrent, Mitbewerber «crime rate Kriminaltterate * despite spar trata * GDP (gross domestic product) ar 6s“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.” This Malcolm Gladwell quotet is c tainly accurate concerning* his own life, He ‘was born in 1963 in Fareham, Hampshire, in England, His father was a rath pro- fessor in Southampton and his mother was «a psychologist born in Jamaica. In 1969, his family relocated to" Elmira, Ontatio, in Canada. Gladwell’s work combines as- pects of social psychology and scienti ic research’, but his early academi sdeavours® were not spectacular, He studied journalism at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., and graduat ‘ed with a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Toronto, but his ‘grades were so poor that he strugoled tom find a job either in journalism or his pr= ‘erred altemative of advertising, Finally, he ones a position with the American Spectator” in Indiana, before gradu ising to become a business and sci- ence correspondent for the pres Washington Post. His journalistic to\\s* ‘over ten years led him to develop one of his first Significant theories, namely the 10,000-hour rule (See box). The Tipping Point Gladwell started to establish a name for vmself as a writer of popular psychoto- gy in articles he wrote for The New Yorker = The Coolhunt and The Tipping Point, which was successful enough to secure him a million-dollar 2evance on™ an pon yrous® book. The full title is The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Vioke 2 Big Differences, whieh was releasec™ in 2000, Itis one of the pioneering works on vira) marketing®, a term we are now all ‘ami ‘ar with, but one which provided a eureka omen for marketers around the world, ‘The Tipping Point answered the question hhow do you get your produet to go from average sales to 02551ve"? The answer is to g0 Viral, but how do you get to the mag- ic tipping point? There are three elements; 1) An idea will spreac like an uneon- trollable virus or fre* once it reach tin point. This involves achleving™ the necessary critical 2) To get to that point, three types of people operate as product evangelists: ‘Connectors - who have a huge s0 Verkufer, Handler © genuinely :s=l autlehtig, eich, echt “maven en Experte, Kenner “adviser od voi) Berater stickiness t+ Unmachg © sutclently

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