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At Amazon - ______________  thrive

The surface - ______________  scratch

_____________ to change   responsive

______________ businesses   old-line

What verb/verb phrase is missing? 

The executioner’s blade - __________    stay ahead of

The competition - ______________  keep up with

The dial - _________________  turn up

abuse

Those going on holiday see it as their right, while hard workers not taking so much time off see it as abuse

apply for something

A solution to these problems is to have an open holiday system whereby staff don`t have to apply for holidays but have a fixed number of days they can take

burn out

This means that very few good employees will take holidays, so they risk burning out

entrepreneur

If you are an experienced entrepreneur, as I am now, the concept might make sense because you`ll know when you should take time off.

exhausted

You also know that being recharged will make you much more productive than carrying on exhausted for months.

feel guilty

But having fixed holiday times can really help staff to take time off when they need it without feeling guilty.

founder

start-up

holiday policy

Many founders of start-ups are now experimenting with different holiday policies, including unlimited holidays

take advantage of somebody

An unlimited holiday policy can take advantage of your best employees

take time off

Without fixed holiday times, it is difficult to know when it`OK to take time off and how much is too much.

absenteeism

We have very few problems with absenteeism.

bureaucracy

The bureaucracy around going on holiday was one of  the first things to go.

co-founder

Jenny Biggam is a co-founder and head of the British media firm the 7 stars, which is based in London.

do away with something

job title

We also did away with job titles, and our staff can work the hours they want, where they want.

industry

The media industry is not a nine-to-five industry; the most important thing is to get the job done.

label

Obviously, it is important for businesses to be well managed, but it is possible to do this without giving people labels and setting limits on how or where they do their work

pull a sickie

Why would you pull a sickie when you can take a day off?

survey

In fact, our firm came third in the 2014 Sunday Times survey „Best Small Companies to Work For”.

prevent, suffering

It`ll soon be possible to prevent people from suffering from food allergies.

 having seizures

A small electronic device put in the brain of an epilepsy sufferer can stop them from having seizures.

heal wounds

It can also be used to help heal wounds by sending out heat that speeds up the repair process.

Key functions, medication

this tablet monitors key functions like breathing and heart rate, but more importantly, it can send the anaesthetist warnings and suggest how medication should be altered during the operation

life-threatening

sometimes this can be life-threatening for example for people who are allergic to peanuts

cure, aber wohl eher treat ( heilung mit hitze)

treat a disease and make healthy again

.... simple pill that can cure cancer,

it can also be used to help heal wounds.....

..... a computer tablet will care for you.

treat a disease and make healthy again.   cure

treat an injury and make healthy again.    heal

look after.   care for

People who eat too much fatty food are likely to develop heart disease.

I can`t stand up for very long, because I`ve strained my back.

treat

his doctor treated his throat infection with antibiotics and that helped.

come down with

I feel terrible. I`ve come down with the flu

get over

I don`t want to go out yet. I'm still getting over a heavy cold.

emit

Other lasers (like those used at the nightclub shown below) emit beams that are much less intense and therefore less dangerous

ambiguous

In fact, the more you look at the topic, the more you realize that our lives are built around light, that our daily existence is continuously shaped – and made vivid – by that ambiguous stuff that dates from the beginning of time

soothing

He has hundreds of lasers, including some that arrive in the mail as gifts, lasers smaller than matchboxes, green lasers soothing tot he eye – all the various descendants of technology that Townes, together with his brother-in-law Arthur Schawlow, invented in the 1950s.

amplifies

Light normally spreads out rapidly in all directions; a laser coheres and amplifies the light in a narrow beam.

principle

The key to producing this beam is the basic atomic principle that says that photons – light as particles – can be captured or emitted by atoms.

emit

can be captured or emitted by atoms.