Some people suggest that opportunities are rare, and only the luckiest persons can obtain them, while some other people urged that in a sense everyone has opportunity from time to time.
As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter opinion to >me extent. I think that various kinds of opportunities are around us [...]
In 1 893 the world ' s first zipper was produced in Chicago. Although the inventor claimed that it was a reliable fastening for clothing , this was not the case. The Chicago zipper sprang open without warning , or jammed shut, and it swiftly lost popularity. Twenty years later a Swedish-born engineer called Sundback [...]
Many people believe everything they read in newspapers or hear on the radio. They think that if information has been printed or broadcasted, someone must have checked to see that it was true. But the following pieces of news are doubtful.
A few years ago I read a story about a husband and wife who made [...]
Mr. Collinson,
The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce myself as Dynatek's new Sales Representa¬tive, Business Accounts. I very recently joined the company and am taking over your account from Jack Winters who has moved on to other challenges in this industry.
I have just completed Dynatek's management orientation program and am now keen to [...]
Since the Eskimos (2) of Cape Dorset began making prints in 1959, their, graphics have continued to delight art lovers around the world. Interest tail spread, not only in the "south." but to Arctic communities as well. Curren%, four other Eskimo settlements are producing prints.
Cape Dorset is probably the best known of the printmaking communities. [...]
Only a person far away from home knows what homesickness is.
It is the welling up tears in your eyes, the lump in your throat, the waving hands when the train is drawing out of the station and taking you away from home. It is the strength with which you walk the three miles to your [...]
I agree to that statement except that I would like to make a small correction: Luxuries and conveniences themselves are not the trouble; the trouble is the misuse of them.
A comparison helps us know what the matter is.
In the past, people had to be "versatile. " A farmer, for example, had to grow crops so [...]
Dear Mr. White,
I have learned from Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 5, 1999, that The International Conference on Teaching Theory will be held in Oxford, Britain, from September 3 to 10, 2000. I am just writing a paper, which seems to be coinciding with the topics of the conference. I would appreciate receiving the [...]
Juan Carlos Aguilar has decided to use Luis Calderon's firm as a supplier for his graphic arts company because he has met Calderon several times in social situations, and over a long breakfast last week Calderon assured him of his firm's ability to supply what Aguilar's organization needs. This decision has been made in spite [...]
Winter is the season in which the nature recuperates. In this season the nature sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring.
The birds have gone. The teeming life that grows in the long grass is dormant. The prairie dogs stay in their holes. The rabbits run shivering from one frozen [...]
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