Online Class Notes (Ally)

AllyMichelle G

Vocabulary

government officials

dreary: depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.

dawn: 开始; 变得明朗; 开始清楚;

sentimental value: emotional value

well-oiled machine: a system/a cooperation that runs smoothly despite challenges

bureaucracy： 官僚主义; 官僚作风; 官僚体制;

conspiracy theories: 阴谋论

ensuing: following

needy: 粘人

earth-shattering news

Speaking exercise

on the execution-level, there is a lack of capability to conduct and organize the whole process.
on the execution-level, there is a lack of organization and structure/management in the whole process.

I’m not that much impacted./impacted that much.
I’m not impacted a lot.

It is not the SH in my mind.
SH didn’t live up to my expectations.

I will spend too much time to watch that
I would spend too much time on it/on tiktok

they will be combined to one
they will be combined/merged
the two units will become one.

there will be a lot of overlap in our work

the head of oncology has announced to leave the company
the head of oncology has announced that he has left the company/his leave (n)

as long as there are people, there would be politics
where there are people, there are politics

they cannot clean themselves up/clean up after themselves/keep themselves clean/clean themselves very well.

A Summary of “Quitting Russia won’t be easy”—-from <bloomberg business week 21 mar.2022>

Putting’s invasion of Ukraine, set off a a mass corporate exodus. Starting from BP company, a large number of global brands withdrew rapidly from Russian market, and may not recoup the value from abandoned operations.
Most of the companies don’t want to be complicit in financing Putin’s war machine. “If you a making one dollar from Russia right now, I’ll call it a blood money” Said by a business leader, bluntly.
Shuttering shops or factories are costly. Companies need compensate the employees and deal with the assets left behind. Some companies who have closed shops but are keeping workers, will face the challenge of paying them.
Publicly traded companies have been more likely to act because they want to avoid being shunned by capital market as a result of reputation risk.
Some executives are optimistic towards the situation, expecting being normalize pretty soon upon the truce. Nevertheless, at this stage, it seems inconceivable that may major business start coming back before the end to the war.