UK companies need more effective board of directors

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someone; complete or extreme
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-Prolonged .adj: continue for a long time
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of what was wrong with it or why it failed
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award
-Publicize v: to make information about sth generally available
-Inquiry .n: an official process to discover the facts about sth bad
that has happened
-Pick over .phrv: to look carefully at a group of things, choosing the
ones you want or get rid of the ones you do not want.
-The many: a very large group of people, esp the public in general

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effect, it causes other events or situations, but not directly
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get information about it
-N + have/has been to v : sth has happened already.( has/have
already VII)
-Call into question : to cause doubts about sth
-Executive .n: sb who has an important position in business, making
decisions and putting them into action
-Consist of .phrv: to be made of or formed from sth
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important and want to solve or achieve, or their reasons for
wanting to do sth
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other people
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person or machine in a period of time
-As a whole: when considered as a group and not in parts ( In
general)
-At the expense of sth: resulting in the loss of sth
-Audit .v: to make an official examination of the accounts of a
business and produce a report
-Boxes are ticked: do sth following the required process, but don’t
actually deal with the issue that supposed to address
-Take the place of: to be used instead of, or to be use substitute for

-Dedicated .adj: believing that sth is very important and giving a

lot of time and energy to it
-Step on the toes of someone: to do sth that upsets or offends
someone
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about particular subject or things on general
-Work up to sth: to reach a goal by increasing the difficulty of sth
every time you practice it
-Comprehend .v: to understand sth completely

-Matter .n: problem

-Financial metrics .n: a set of numbers that give information about
financial
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are able to live, in an unfair way
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-Serve .v: to help achieve sth or to be useful as sth
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political,…
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sides stay in the same place
-In the/a full glare of sth : an occasion when someone receives a
very large amount of public attention
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particular result has the opposite or a very different result
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behave in a certain way
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money
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you are leaving
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subject that you have strong feeling about

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-Ethics .n: the study of what is morally right and wrong, or a set of
beliefs about what is morally right and wrong
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property, business, and industry are privately owned, directed
towards making the greatest possible profits for successful
organizations and people
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so that they are the same as those of another person or group; the
result of this process

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sth unpleasant
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between, for example, workers and employers or two countries
with a common border