Reading comprehension: Anita R

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00Would you please explain to me the underlined sentences of the following text ?02br
00Anita Roddick is the owner of Body Shop.02br
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00Interviewer: I wonder what it was in you that enabled you to have that kind of feeling about what business should be.02br
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00Anita R: I think what gave me this (1) 01u00whole edge02u00 is that I was saved by not going to business school, by not doing the traditional route.02br
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00I: That’s a terrible condemnation of business school.02br
00AR: (2) 01u00I don’t believe... I believe they do an incredibly good job of developing people to understand financial science02u00. You can’t expect to raise an entrepreneur in a business school. Entrepreneurs are usually (3) 01u00outsiders02u00. That’s why immigrants, refugees make the best entrepreneurs. Whether you had the Jewish immigrants in the beginning of the century, or the Italian immigrants in the mid-century, or the Pakistani and the Bengladeshi, and the Idian or the Caribbean, (4) 01u00they all dance to a different drum beat02u00. They are not part of the system. (3) 01u00They’re outside the system02u00. And when you’re a young person, and you feel as an outsider... you were just braver because (5) 01u00you didn’t know any better02u00. (6) 01u00Business school would have polished my thinking into a much more disciplined way02u00. Market, product development, finance, instead of saying “My God! If I make this idea really good, people will buy it from me, hopefully give me a profit.” And it became, (7) 01u00it was a notion of trading, which... entrepreneurs are manic traders02u00. We’re buyers and sellers. All we want to do is go into the market place for feedback on our ideas. And all the money we make is of no interest to us. We just want the money to oil the wheels, to see how far this idea could go. And many of us feel fraudulent, because ideas just come out of our head like a genie in the bottle. We vomit ideas. But we are terribly, terribly bad at managing.02br
00... I don’t want to be the biggest retailer in the world. I have no interest in that, I just want to be the most idiosyncratic, the wildest, the bravest.02br
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00... Business institution controls government thinking, political thinking. It controls our health, our safety, it controls what we eat, controls what we think. And (8) 01u00it’s because this whole growth in the global economy, and which really means corporate global economy. So this growth in corporations02u00 just bow down to nothing, no local laws, no national laws. (9) 01u00They stop any environmental standards, any human rights standards02u00 (10) 01u00if they deem it gets in the way of trade02u00.02br
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00... If the wealth comes out at (11) 01u00a hundred and fifty million quid02u00, or whaterver it is, what better thing to do than to give it away? What a great legacy, just you know with the building of the schools in Africa, the support of the community organisers, the human rights, this whole campaign I’m putting moneys into at the moment on the elimination of sweat shops and child labour and (12) 01u00slave labour02u00.02br
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002) Since it’s a dialogue she doesn’t always finish her sentences so here I don’t know if she means “I believe they do an incredible job” or “I don’t believe they do an incredibly good job”.02br
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003) What she mean by “being outside the system”? Is she talking about people who didn’t go to business schools but who did business following their intuition or something of the kind?02br
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004) All the people cited have a different way of doing business that relies on their own culture, feeling? Any thing else?02br
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005) They had to be daring and inovative to be competitive because they didn’t have any other skill?02br
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006) Killed her crativity by casting her into the same mould as all the other students? Would have made her into a stereotype?02br
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009) By “corporations” does she mean “multinationals”? = these big companies stop any environmental progress and human rights defense?02br
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0011) Would you please give its rough equivalent in euro?02br
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0012) What could be “slave labour” today?02br
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00Many thanks,02br
00Hela0-