Shared Names
It’s the living King Charles' royal family name & the name of one of his castles.
Windsor
A good or service with tangible and intangible characteristics that provides satisfaction and benefits. If you can't offer any services, you need to have at least one of these to be in business at all.
Product
“Moving” these structures found on a football field has come to mean changing the rules.
Moving the goalpost
_____ is an exclusive intergovernmental organization, comprised of most of the largest economic powers in the world. The club is not open to all, as only developed or emerging nations are invited to be official members. Since 2008, it has convened at least once a year, with summits involving each member's head of government or state, as well as diplomatic officers.
G-20
Common 3-letter abbreviation for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Ph.D
This smallest dog breed is named for the largest Mexican state.
Chihuahua
This is the study of how resources are distributed for the production of goods and services within a social system.
Economics
An important variable for calculating cost in our business is finding each parcel's _________, which reflects package density, or the amount of space a package occupies in relation to its actual weight. it is calculated as Length times Width times Height.
Dimensional Weight
Before and during the Second World War, the United States under President _______ gave strong support to the Indian Independence movement, despite being allies to Britain.
Roosevelt
The Egyptians were the first known civilization to power boats using these, probably large leafy fronds on the bow
Sails
The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with the capital city of one of the founding original 13 US States.
Dover
The funds used to acquire the natural and human resources needed to provide products.
Capital
The nature of our service could be summarized with a single term: SCM, or ___________. This describes the ongoing job of procurement, product lifecycle management, supply planning, order management, manufacturing, inventory, and warehouse management for any type of business selling physical products.
Supply Chain Management
This former dictator and revolutionary once transformed Cambodia into a one-party state called Democratic Kampuchea. Among other things, ______'s government abolished money, forcibly relocated the urban population to the countryside and forced it to work on collective farms. White collar workers were not something ________ was fond off.
Pol Pot
One of many familiar-yet-outdated units of measurements that are still in use, _____ is a unit of land equal to 43,560 feet, or 4,047 square meters.
an acre
This cartoon character debuted in 1930, the same year the object he shares a name with was discovered
Pluto
The number of goods and services that consumers are willing to buy at different prices a a specific time.
Demand
SpeedShip, xCarrier, and Shipstation are all examples of third parties that offer their own __________, or TMS software. Of course, their systems are pulling almost all of their data from our own system; this is fine as UPS provides them with a license to resell our services and logistics under both of our brands, which helps make UPS more accessible to small business customers.
Transportation Management System
Serving as Prime Minister of India for 15 years, this woman was often referred to by her shortened nickname -- "Indu."
Indira Gandhi, in Office 1966-1977
This island country was named for a 16th century Spanish king whose name comes from the Greek for "lover of horses"
the Philippines
A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name.
Manhattan
A business expense that remains the same in the short-term, despite changes in volume or scale. Examples include rent, interest, and salaries.
Fixed Cost, Overhead
Favorite 2023 adverb for many Fortune 500 CEOs (including our own), generally used to describe the high level of importance something has.
"Wildly"
Ex. "It means we will balance defensive and offensive mode and it means we will execute what we call our wildly important initiatives. "
This organization was founded in 1904 to "promote the game of Association Football" (as opposed to rugby or American football), and to "foster friendly relations among National Associations, Confederations, and their officials and players." Today, it boasts 211 membership organizations, and serves as the modern international governing body of football.
FIFA
Anatomically and even genetically speaking, the common, domesticated chicken is said to be the closest living relative to this much more impressive, extinct, distant ancestor.