1    My name is David Truman and I am the _chariman of Simons Facilities Corporation. Thank you for inviting me to speak here today about future energy technologies. _First of all, let me introduce our company, SFC, to you.

      Simply put, SFC is one company with two lines of business—power and water, and our history dates back to over 100 years ago. Today we are 

one of the 50 largest companies in the UK. More than 20,000 of our employees build and manage power and water facilities in England, Scotland and Wales. 

      With this infomation as background, now I would like to come to the topic of my speech today: What new energy technologies are there and where can they take us? 

 

2.   Negotiating is the process by which two or more parties with different needs and goals work together to find a mutually acceptable solution to an issue. Understanding more about the negotiation process allows you to manage your negotiations with confidence and it increases the chance of success. 

      Before the negotiation, you should set your goals clearly: determine what you want and what your bottom line would be.

During the negotiation, start by talking about something with which no one could disagree. You can recite basic facts   that the other party will say yes to. Give them a chance to tell you what they want. They may have an offer more favorable than you expected. If you disagree with something, state your disagreement in a gentle but firm way. Don’t quarrel with the other party or get into a struggle. Remember negotiation does involve compromise. Unless you can get the other party to want exactly what you want, you will have to compromise. But you don’t have to compromise your principles. 

        Negotiating is a complex process but  one worth mastering . If you follow the tips above, you will find the process easier.

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Anyone who has ever used the Internet has seen Google, and many people would just “google it” when they try to find information about something on the Internet. As the world’s most popular Internet search engine, Google is one of the greatest examples of online success. 

     It all began in January 1996 as a research project at Stanford University by Ph.D. student Larry Page. Trying to find a better way for web users to search for relevant pages, Page had an idea that this could be achieved by examining the relationships between web pages. He thought that web pages which had the most links to them from other web pages must be the most popular. The technique appeared to be successful.

  Page and his partner Sergey Brin set up their company on September 7, 1998 and registered the google.com the following week. The search engine quickly grew in popularity and in 2000 Google began to sell advertising on their website. After a few years of growth fueled by eager investors, Google went public. Many Google employees became instant millionaires.

        

4.Google has recently acquired YouTube.com which is the Internet’s largest videosharing website and continues to add new features every day including tool bars, email, and advertising. Of course, with growth and success there also comes competition. Microsoft has recently tried to acquire Yahoo in order to compete with Google in the Internet search engine area.

  In addition to its growth and popularity, Google has also been named the number one company to work for in the United States. It tends to stay away from typical office designs and tries to make the office a place where employees are comfortable and free to excel at their work.

       Today, Google owns YouTube, Blogger and other hot websites and has become the leader in terms of ad-based revenue on the web. The brain child of two students has become a billion-dollar company and one of the best-known trademarks in the world. Google’s history serves as a perfect model and inspiration for Internet entrepreneurs today.

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 Every time we walk into a store, restaurant, theater or any other place of business to buy something, we trade. Basically, international trade does not differ from trade with other people in our country. The key to understanding trade is to remember why it takes place. The reason people trade, regardless of where they live, is that they believe they will be better off by trading. When we consider the alternative—each of us producing everything for ourselves—trade simply makes more sense.

The process of importing and exporting creates a greater variety of goods and services because it permits countries to specialize in what they do best. By specializing in the goods it can produce most efficiently, a country can increase production and have the opportunity to make more sales and profits. Profits can turn into increased wages for the work force and additional investment in plants and equipment. The process also provides consumers with more goods at lower prices.

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 The benefits of trade can be explained using the economic principles of absolute and comparative advantage. For example, suppose there are a lawyer and a legal assistant. If it takes the lawyer less time to prepare briefs or to type letters than it does the assistant, in economic language, the lawyer has an “absolute advantage” both in preparing legal briefs and in typing letters. If we stopped here, we might be inclined to say that the lawyer should produce both, because the lawyer is better at both.

 According to comparative advantage, the lawyer should specialize in his or her strongest skill—the law, and the legal assistant—typing letters. If they do, they actually will produce more than if each of them had tried to do both tasks alone. Specializing in what they do best and then trading their products for the other things they need will make both parties better off.