Упражнение 4. Выполните перевод с листа. Business Non-Stop — 4 (А.П.Чужакин

Business Non-Stop — 4 ( А.П.Чужакин. МИР ПЕРЕВОДА-3,2005, стр 78 – 94)

1.Cigarette makers are in talks with state attorney-generals and plaintiffs lawyers to try to settle the mass of litigation swamping America's tobacco industry. In exchange for freedom from liabilities- tobacco makers may set up a $300 billion fund to pay for smoking illnesses, and agree to be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, and to stricter curbs on advertising.

* * *In the latest attempt to restrict the sort of material available on the Internet, prosecutors in Germany indicted the local head of CompuServe, an American on-line service, on charges of trafficking pornography.

2. The leader in the three-way race to carve up the telecoms world pulled further ahead. Britain's ВТ and America's MCI added Portugal Telecom to their Concert global telecoms alliance. If Spain's Telefonica also joins, as rumoured, Concert will have not only established a sizable beachhead in Europe, but will also lead in Latin America. Least happy about the latest news AT&T's Unisource alliance, of which Telefonica is a part.

3. Despite recent rumours of a delay to a European single currency, institutional investors around the world are increasingly confident of a scheduled start on January 1st 1999, with 97% of respondents in a survey by Paribas, a French bank, believing it will begin on time. Only 17% think Italy, so keen to be in the first wave, will be there.

* * * Lachlan Murdoch, eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, is taking charge of News Limited, the Australian operations of his father's global media empire, News Corp. The 25-year-old assumes overall control with the retirement of the veteran Ken Cowley.

4. Patriot American Hospitality, a fast-growing property investment trust, agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Wyndham Hotel Corp, a chain with some 100 upmarket hotels. The purchase includes another 11 hotels from related partnerships.

* * *Apple Computer reported second-quarter losses of $708 m and a fall in revenue since a year earlier of 27%. In Italy Olivetti's consolidated group net loss this year narrowed to $593 m, compared with a 1.6 trillion loss the year before.

5. Gazprom, Russia's gigantic natural-gas producer, gave in to intense government pressure by announcing a far reaching reorganization and saying it would pay nearly half its outstanding tax bill of $2.6 billion. Gazprom, though, keeps control of the 35% stake owned by the state.

* * * USA Waste Services agreed to buy United Waste Systems for $1.7 billion, enforcing the acquisitive firm's (покупатель) position as third-largest disposal company in the United States.

6.Some 5,300 bankers, businessmen and politicians attended the annual meeting in London of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The bank's shareholders applauded its efficiency in aiding the former communist countries' transition to democracy and capitalism; its guests, though, were forced to queue outside for up to five hours on the first day.

A number of announcements were timed to coincide with the EBRD’s jamboree the World Bank unveiled a $6 biliion loan over two years to help Russia ease the social pain of reform; Bulgaria got $400m from the IMF and $658 m from the IMF. Several countries said they would speed up the privatization of their banks.

7. The European Union and the United States defused their quarrel over trade with Cuba. The EU will postpone its complaints to the World Trade Organisation about America's controversial Helms-Burton law in exchange for an undertaking (promise, commitment) by the US President to limit the application of the legislation.

* * * Japanese shipping companies evaded American trade sanctions that were due to come into force this week after agreeing to make some changes to restrictive work practices at Japanese ports.

8. The Dow Jones industrial average made big strides on Monday on strong corporate earnings, leapt more than 2% on Tuesday, one of its biggest one-day jumps ever, after American consumer prices registered a tiny rise in March, and rose 1.4% on this month on prospects of a tobacco settlement.

* * * A British regulator, IMRO, slapped a record £2 m ($3.2 m) fine on Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, the British fund-management arm of Deutsche Bank, for breaching investment rules and not informing it about mounting problems. MGAM must also pay £ I m in costs.

8.American banks, including the two biggest, Chase Manhattan Citicorp, did better than expected despite higher losses for many from credit cards and other loans.

* * * New car registrations in Europe fell by 3% this month from a year earlier. In Germany, Europe's largest car market, they fell by 8.6% and in France by 21%. Italy, though, registered a jump of 25%.

* * * The big three American car makers increased net earnings in the first quarter. General Motors did better than expected, rising to $1.7 billion from $l billion a year earlier. Chrysler rose 2.4% to a record $1.03 billion, and Ford from $142 m to $1 billion.

9.An Oxford professor, Sir Roger Penrose, is suing the makers of Kleenex quilted lavatory paper, claiming Kimberley Clark is using on its loo rolls an "aperiodic" pattern called Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings he invented in 1974.

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