IV. Translate from English into Russian.

1. The ailing motor manufacturer wanted 820 voluntary redundancies. Now workers will go on a 'last-in, first-out' basis.

2. Flexitime, job-sharing and working from home would be encouraged.

3. The report says that 80 per cent of British commuter traffic is by car, 40 per cent of which is devoted to commuter traffic.

4. If projections are accurate, many more people will be teleworking in the future.

5. The teachers were let go when the school district lost $47 million in state funding.

6. He is fired from his job because he has been uttering unAmerican thoughts.

7. BT workers ought to think again about wanting to be out of work, because it's not easy living on the dole.

8. Godfrey Claff, director at the trust, said: 'The centre is based on the highly successful business telecottage concept from Scandinavia. It will bring the benefits of high technology to companies and people in the surrounding rural area and will attract business from commercial centres both nationally and internationally.' First I shall be consulting the League Managers' Association and suing the club for unfair dismissal. It will make great listening at an industrial tribunal.

9. ... massive overstuffing with trade unions holding out against technological change. Maxwell negotiated a two-third reduction in the workforce.

10. Lawton Chiles vowed to get Florida out of the mess it was in by right-sizing the government. That's his phrase for making it smaller and smarter. British Satellite Broadcasting staff will today be given details of their redundancy payoffs, if as expected, widespread job cuts are introduced.

11. Bosses feel more embarrassed when they sack fellow managers or professionals, whom they may see again at the golf club, than when they do the same to factory workers. They ease their embarrassment by giving these well-paid employees more generous severance payments.

V. Look at this article from “Today” and put words from below in the spaces. Not all the words are used.

benefit duty handshake headhunted headhunting

opportunities package perks salary tax

200,000 Pounds to fly smokeless sultan

An oil-rich sultan is searching for a non-smoking airline captain to become the highest paid chauffeur in the world. The pilot who will fly the 40 million pound Boeing 747 used by Sultan Qaboos of Oman, can expect more than £200,000.

The health-conscious Sultan, who is offering a ______ free _______ of at least £60,000, hates cigarettes, and prefers to surround himself with non-smokers.

Exact figures are secret, but ______________ include an expenses-paid luxury home, medical bills for consultants anywhere in the world, private schools for the children, back air tickets and two months leave a year. There would also be a handsome golden _________ at the end of the two-year minimum contract.

Though applications are flooding into an exclusive London headhunting agency from all over the world, the Sultan is known to prefer a British pilot. ...

VI. Use appropriate forms of key words below to comple­te this extract from National Public Radio. One of the words is used three times, one of the words is used twice, two of the words are used once each and two of the words are not used at all.

a downsize с workforce e mass

b layoff d sack f overstaffing