Chapter 1
an individual - a person, not a group, a man ora
woman or a child
a firm - a business, a company
to produce -to make
revenue - money income
to eliminate - to remove or take away something or
someone
to encourage - to try to get someone to do
something, for example to encourage someone to
give up smoking cigarettes becauseitis bad for
hem
statistical - about numbers and calculations that
measure something, for example employment
statistics measure the number of people who have
ajob
a diagram - a simple picture of something, a
drawing or a chart or a graph
current - happening now, happening at this time,
new
aprediction - a guess about the the future
atheory - ideas or rules used to explain something
like in science, why something happens, or in
psychology, why people behave the way they do
advice - an idea or opinion about what to do in a
diffcult situation
