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baby booster | the generation can be segmented into two broadly defined cohorts:the leading edge baby boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1955 those who came of age during the vietnam war era |
commute | travel some distance between ones home and place of work on a regular basis |
conference call | a telephone call by which a caller can speak with several people at the same time |
dual income | a household in which there are two incomes |
economics conditions | the state of the econonomy in country or religion change over time in lines with the economic and business cycle as an economy goes through expansion and contraction |
employment trends | show whether employment in a particular area has risen or declined in the stated years |
embargo | an officail ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particualr county |
globalization | a process of interaction and integration among the people companies and government of different nations a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology |
implication | the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated the actions or state of being involved in something |
infer | deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements |
manufacturing | make (something ) on a large scale using machinery |
societal changes | to a large degree reflected in industrial needs ( for innovation improved standards low cost production methods knowledge about the human body better acccess to data and academic knowledge |
tariff | a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports |
telecommunting | work from home making use of the internet email and the telephone |
trends | a general direction in which something is developing or changing |
video/voice conferencing | means to conduct a conference between two or more participants at different sites by using computer networks to transmit audio and video data |
webinar | a seminar conducted over the internet |