Managers for the twenty-first century

New words

• effectively        for practical purpose; in effect efficiently    the fear of not being able to carry it through has always made me shy of assuming the moral attitude.
• finance            provide money for         financial        He assumed all transactions are financed by credit.        High inflation and interest rates have made it more difficulty to finance long-term capital-intense project.
• replicate            be or make a copy for;     reproduce    Others birds, such as sparrows, replicate virus and spread infection, but will not become ill.
• perspective        particular way of considering something        point of view        a perspective drawing a perspective glass        The conservation laws provide a perspective from the vantage of experiment.
• Ignorance        in ignorance                        from ignorance        be in ignorance of something
• demography        statistical    study of populations
• mores            customs with the force of laws
• fraction             small part, bit, amount or proportion            a common fraction        a mixed fraction    a decimal fraction    a proper fraction         breaking of bread by priest        separate component     the last smallest fraction is difficult to detect.    He has visions of expansion.        Needless to say, the examples of borrowing from American quoted in the preceding pages are a mere fraction of what might be adduced.
• statistic
• statistical
• inventory detail list    
• enlightened        free from prejudice physical inventory            inventory control     make inventory of     As we have seen, a leveling off of demand can cause businesses to stop accumulating inventories very abruptly.
• mount         increase in amount or intensity        mount … against…         The candidate mounted an attack on his rival.            He is a member of the sect which mounted the exhibition and takes it from town to town, months to months, year to year.
• motivate     stimulate, encourage, inspire        stimulate the interest of ; cause to want to do something
• mode
• edge
• equation        a differential equation         an identical equation    equation of payments
• superior        better than average         better, stronger, etc.            a superior person        be superior to superior to difficulties        
• superiority
• illiterate unable to read or write ;     ignorance in a particular field
• bet                 risk on the result of a future event     
• authentic
• immense
• authority
• masses

phrases

• more likely than not    very probably
• on top of         control of
• when it comes to :         when it is a case , matter or question of
• it that:         for the reason that; because
• in a sense            if the statement, etc. is understood in a particular way
• on average
• regardless of         paying no attention of