硕士英语综合教程2ppt

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Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried, as of June 30, 2010 (2010 -06-30). Southwest operates more than 3,400 flights a day, as of March 2011, utilizing a fleet of 552 aircraft.
Seattle’s Pike Place Market Howard Shultz
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W. L. Gore & Associates ―Fortune‖ 100 best companies to work for, 2011, known for GORETEX® fabrics Founded in 1958, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Newark, Delaware, USA. For more than 50 years, Gore has built a worldwide reputation for ethics and integrity in its dealings with customers, suppliers, and employees, and for taking a long-term view when assessing business situations.
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Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American business magnate（巨头）. He is the best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle Supersonics. Schultz cofounded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the United States, with a net worth of
A branch at the United Square Shopping Mall in Singapore
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Lincoln Electric is an American multinational and a leading global manufacturer of welding (焊接) products, arc welding equipments, welding consumables, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipments and robotic welding systems. Globally headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Lincoln Electric has a worldwide network of distributors （批发商）and sales offices covering more than 160 countries. The company reported over $ 2 billion sales in 2006 alone, with sales from North America accounting to 50% of it. Lincoln has over 8500+ employees globally and 3000 in the United States alone.
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Seattle’s Pike Place Market: a Seattle icon and the nation‘s oldest continuously operating farmers market, celebrated its centennial （一百周年） on August 17, 2007. According to the statistics, the Pike Place Market is the top tourist attraction in Seattle
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Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 18,887 stores in 55 countries, including over 12,500 in the United States, over 1,200 in Canada and over 700 in the United Kingdom. Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espressobased hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, coffee beans, salads, hot and cold sandwiches, pastries, snacks, and items such as mugs and tumblers. Through the Starbucks Entertainment division and Hear Music brand, the company also markets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffee are also offered at grocery stores.
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Ben & Jerry‘s is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry‘s Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United States, with the main factory in Waterbury. It is best known as an ice cream brand, founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont.
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Unit 1 Human-based Strategy
Text A Successful Organizations Put People First
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coffee accessories
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Espresso Spoons home coffee roaster thermoses Carafes Air pots
In June 2011, Lincoln installed the largest wind turbine in Ohio and one of the largest in North America. At 443 feet, it has a capacity of
2.5 Megawatt.
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Espresso is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee. Espresso often has a thicker consistency than coffee brewed by other methods, a higher concentration of suspended and dissolved solids, and crema (foam). As a result of the pressurized brewing process the flavors and chemicals in a typical cup of coffee are very concentrated. Espresso is the base for other drinks, such as a latte, cappuccino, macchiato, mocha, or Americano. Espresso has more caffeine per unit volume than most beverages, but the usual serving size is smaller—a 30 ml (1 US fluid ounce) shot of espresso has 40 to 75 mg of caffeine, which is about half the caffeine of a standard 240 ml (8 US fluid ounces) cup of drip-brewed coffee. Home Back
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W. L. Gore & Associates Southwest Airlines Ben & Jerry’ homemade Lincoln Electric Starbucks coffee accessories Espresso