Words
Could you please confirm your order by _______________ as soon as possible?
Pharmaceutical company Lonza has launched / taken a bid to acquire Patheon.
launched
I regret to tell / telling you that we're cancelling our contract immediately.
to tell
Fred must been a good salesperson when he worked for us because there was a sudden drop in sales revenue after he left.
must have been
The more I consume, the brighter I become. The brighter I become, the shorter my life. What am I?
A lightbulb.
OK, from your _______________ of view, we should scrap this idea. Correct?
point
I've just written a book on how to sell / make a successful acquisition.
make
To work / Working overtime is something we all have to do sometimes.
Working
Which our competition doesn’t do is provide good after-sales service.
What
What comes out at night without being called, and is lost in the day without being stolen?
Stars
Let’s not make any hasty decisions. We need to think this _______________ a bit more.
through
Lions Gate shareholders have rejected / set up a bid by Carl lchan.
rejected
We're going to hold a press conference this afternoon. ___________ (ignore) the media and we'll never be able to control the flow of information. We're also going to update our website regularly.
Ignore
By experience day-to-day life in one of your target markets, you can really begin to understand your potential customers.
by experiencing
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Map
You have to _______________ the pros and cons.
weigh up
We're anticipating / spreading a downturn next year, so we're being cautious this year.
anticipating
We're going to issue a recall. If we __________ (do) this when we had a similar problem two years ago, there wouldn't have been a crisis at that time.
had done
Last Friday, the office lights were left on at the end of the day, so please remember switching them off before you leave this afternoon.
to switch
I am a word that begins with the letter “e” and ends with the letter “e” but only contains one letter. What am I?
Envelope
We’ve _______________ so I’m afraid we may be looking at having to file for bankruptcy.
run out of money
The risk of not hiring a local manager is that we'll eliminate / encounter problems with the local staff as a result.
encounter
Should you have any questions, please __________ (contact) my office. __________ (give) the right resources, our team can stop this becoming a crisis.
contact / Given
I don’t feel enough confident to stand in front of an audience and answer their questions.
confident enough
What comes next in this sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ...?
312211 (Each term describes the previous term: one 1 [11], two 1s [21], one 2 then one 1 [1211], and so on).