Business Vocabulary

By _______________ the details of the contract the company seeks to increase profitability.

The new element which is introduced into resource management when the resource is transboundary is the fact that the resource is subject to ..... by one, two, or more states which can be expected to interact with one another.

..... reference groups include people who more realistically represent the individuals' current equals or near-equals - e.g., coworkers, neighbors, or members of churches, clubs, and organizations.

Because this is not an exact science, most investment managers work with several risk categories; these categories are summaries of how the investor feels about investment risk, how much ..... market fluctuations can be tolerated, and how much they expect to profit when the markets are going up.

The increasing popularity of index funds has created a market ..... that has artificially raised S&P 500 prices above the levels dictated by economic fundamentals; it thus threatens to interfere with the key function of financial markets - getting investors to put their cash into the most economically promising investments.

Although the Middle East is still home to most of the world's 275-plus Islamic banks, a growing number of banks operating in the marketplace are ..... elsewhere.

An investor who buys .....-backed securities provides loans to the homebuyer (or business) as a consequence.

When a person makes a decision very quickly, it is often called a ..... decision.

Oh my gosh! I think I lost my black leather ...... I had everything in there! What am I going to do?

A(n) ..... is a worker who often has a college degree and is held to a higher standard of performance than the average employee.