Senior figures from Russia's 10 "closed nuclear cities", plus nuclear institutions in the republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, are taking part in the Business English and Contract Negotiations course.
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One delegate was Tim Young, whose farm-machinery business craves English speakers willing to travel to remote farmsteads to repair machinery.
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Holiday said he told the local school district he would stay if he could use its facilities and its teachers to start a business providing English instruction to students in Asia where, according to Holiday, there aren't enough skilled language instructors, particularly in non-urban areas, to teach.
English is the global language of business, yet English is also the native tongue of relatively few people, and it is notoriously hard to learn.
The offshoring business remains predominantly English-speaking.
The company has traditionally focused its business on the English-speaking market -- it has over 100 shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, UK and the U.S. -- but last year extended its global reach into the fast growing Brazilian market.
Of Paramont's 800 employees, 100 are Brazilian, and day-to-day business is conducted in English.
Last year, the Financial Times, half-owner of The Economist, acquired 14% of the Business Standard, an English-language daily.
My wife, who developed an English tutoring business here, started singing in choirs (an important leisure activity in Israel) shortly after we moved and has become a soloist.
This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.
On his bookshelf, sandwiched between Chinese works on Marx, are two slim English volumes on Business Cycles.
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Of course, Hollywood blockbusters, wildlife documentaries and English-language business news will always find an audience in Asia.
Scottish Conservative Party spokesman Murdo Fraser called for a reduction in business rates to below the English level to give Scottish firms a "competitive advantage".
In Toronto, however, where English prevails, your business contacts are likely to be Anglophone Canadians.
Why not have a well-laid-out professional English website of its business as well?
As Asian business takes to the Internet, English may even lose its place as the unchallenged lingua franca of the web.
They argue that the rush to learn English can sometimes hurt business by making it harder to find any staff who are willing to master less glamorous European languages.
Professor Lal's business was publishing Indian writers in English.
Other moves, such as allowing English councils to retain business rate revenues and borrow money against future income generated from capital investment projects, represented "quite a dramatic loosening of the leash" of central government, he insisted.
Just as their poorest countrymen have continued to leave family and familiarity behind to labor in spots like the Arab Gulf, so, too, may a new cohort of the best and brightest look to international business centers, especially where their English-language facility gives them an edge.
Even if justified by business necessity in these situations, an English-only policy should not be applied to casual conversations between employees when they are not performing job duties.
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The business opportunity arises from the attractions of an English education to Chinese families.
Pupils will specialise in engineering and science alongside other subjects such as English, maths, languages and business.
The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
Another realization was that education is considered the panacea for problems and English language was the language of business (especially in India) and people were willing to pay to learn these skills.
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When rumor had it that the maker of his favorite English lavender soap was going out of business, Parisi ordered dozens of boxes.
Since quitting the game, Pericard has set up Elite Welfare Management, a business aimed at helping foreign players settle within the English game.
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Is it freedom of religion, democracy, a judiciary and parliamentary system that is envied worldwide, a cherished monarchy, a reputation of fair play on and off the field, be it business, sports, diplomacy or combat, the English language, etc?
English is clearly a factor in this evolving business dynamic, but it is not the solution.
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