By Barry Leon Appleby
The technical growth of the twentieth century has resulted in innovative adjustments on the planet of trade, that have proceeded at an more and more quick velocity because the finish of the second one global battle. exchange has develop into internationalized. The box and, later, the pc have made many fashioned company workouts out of date and required the construction of recent ones. brand new businessmen needs to be built with a data of economics, finance, legislation and expertise so that it will be ready to make the perfect judgements. This paintings is an try to mirror the complexity of contemporary trade. phrases were chosen from a variety of fields, together with economics, finance, banking, stock-broking, customs tactics, and transport. Account has additionally been taken of the truth that no longer all international locations on the earth are on the comparable point of improvement and so a couple of older phrases when it comes to customs strategies and piece-goods transport methods were retained. not like the vast majority of such works, this ebook comprises Swedish equivalents as an acknowledgement of the significance of the Nordic international locations in global alternate
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See DOG. barney. A man seen as socially inept, homely, or plainly dressed; a nerd. In the 1960s TV comedy sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, Don Knotts was aptly named Barney Fife, an inept if zealous deputy sheriff often described as one of the “naïve but noble rubes” who made that show and others with a similar rural orientation popular. ” Compare it with more demeaning words for homely or backward women, such as BIFFER, DOG, or DOUCHEBAG (the emphasis in the attacks on women is more on appearance than on competence).
In Buchwald, Fletcher, and Roth 1993, 232–33) See also BLONDE (dumb blonde), DOLL, LOOKSISM. barefoot and pregnant (keep them). A cliché that has come to be used by femi- bat nists as a shorthand way of expressing what they see as men’s traditional desire to keep women dependent and tied down—to the home and the domestic role. Boles and Hoeveler (1996) note that local chapters of the National Organization for Women (NOW) once offered “Barefoot and Pregnant Awards” to men in mockery of acts of egregious sexism.
Rodgers (1972) says it has also had some pejorative use to mean loss of sexual attractiveness, getting old, fading in one’s beauty. See also BEAUTY, COQUETTE, EFFEMINATE, GAY, LOOKSISM, MARY, TACO (taco belle). belle mère. See MOTHER-IN-LAW. berdache. A Native American biological male who adopts the dress and ways of a woman. Native American women, too, have had a similar institution and might also be called berdaches, though AMAZON has had some use in referring to the female counterpart of the generally male concept of berdache.