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.pdf4.The House of Representatives of Thailand selects Abhisit Vejjajiva of the
Democrat Party as the country's new Prime Minister.
5.The intention to draft the constitution was formally tabled at the 11th ASEAN Summit held in December 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; there ten ASEAN leaders, called the ASEAN Eminent Persons Group, were assigned to produce recommendations of the drafting of the charter.
6.In 1978 the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened, where Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and other party officials agreed to launch economic reforms and to open up China.
7.President Bush announces a $17.4 billion emergency bailout of the automobile industry to protect General Motors and Chrysler from bankruptcy during the current automotive crisis.
8.Adidas, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, has dominated the market since the 1950s with other European brands such as Puma SE.
9.Yesterday Mercedes Benz Fashion Week hit the tents at Lincoln Centre.
10.At this year’s spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF, the world’s global finance ministers signed up to an ambitious target for progress against poverty.
Задание 4. Найдите соответствия следующим реалиям. Определите способ их перевода.
Foot, mile, ale, businessman, Tory, Labor, Sir, blues, kitchen-cabinet, the White House, first family, Oval Office, squatter, stars and stripes, canyon, corn, dollar diplomacy, merchandise mart, premium deal, cash dispenser, neighborhood, Inc., Magna Carta, London Traded Options Market, Board of Trade, highway, Good Friday, guinea, a nursing home, the Fifth Column, a free-lance, fast food, scrap quilt, primaries, diggers, downtown, Indian Summer.
Задание 5. Переведите на русский язык следующий текст, обращая внимание на перевод имён собственных, географических названий и реалий.
Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde was born in Paris, France, into a family of academics. Her father, Robert Lallouette, was a Professor of English; her mother, Nicole, was a Latin teacher. As a teenager, Lagarde was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team. After her baccalauréat in 1973, she went on an American Field Service scholarship to the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda,
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Maryland. She graduated from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, where she obtained Master's degrees in English, labor law, and social law. She also holds a master's degree from the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence.
Lagarde joined Baker & McKenzie, a large Chicago-based international law firm, in 1981. She handled major antitrust and labor cases, was made partner after six years and was named head of the firm in Western Europe. She joined the executive committee in 1995 and was elected the company's first ever female Chairman in October 1999.
Since 2005 she held various ministerial posts in the French government: she was Minister of Economic Affairs, Finance and Employment and before that Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde was the first woman to become finance minister of a G8 economy. On 16 November 2009, the Financial Times ranked her the best Minister of Finance in the Eurozone.
On 25 May 2011, Lagarde announced her candidacy to be head of the IMF to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn upon his resignation. Her candidacy received the support of the British, Indian, United States, Brazilian, Russian, Chinese and German governments. On 28 June 2011, the IMF board elected Lagarde as its next managing director and chairman for a five-year term. Lagarde became the first woman to be elected as the head of the IMF. Nicolas Sarkozy referred to Lagarde's appointment as "a victory for France."
Источник: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde
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