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[00:01]award

[00:03]Industry executives will vote for the best Brit awards

[00:06]performance whether Jarvis Cocker during Michael

[00:09]Jackson's Earth Song could win it for the prince of pop

[00:13]remains to be seen.

[00:16]enlarge

[00:18]I believe that the most important forces behind the

[00:20]massive M&A wave are...: falling transportation and

[00:25]communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers

[00:30]and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations

[00:35]capable of meeting customer's demands.

[00:53]extend

[00:54]It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites

[00:59]you to think that animals should be treated either with the

[01:02]consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no

[01:07]consideration at all.

[00:39]expand

[00:40]Raising the retirement age for Social Security

[00:43]and Medicare would save money while encouraging

[00:46]Americans to work longer, thereby expanding economic potential.

[01:12]stretch

[01:15]"If a teacher is not confident with any subject, children

[01:19]pick up on that lack of confidence. If we stretch teachers'

[01:23]knowledge, they become fluent with their subject and

[01:26]give off the right signals to their pupils."

[01:30]prolong

[01:33]Avoid shaving creams in cans too -they have

[01:36]ingredients added to prolong the shelf life-and use

[01:40]unfragranced products if you have sensitive skin.

[01:45]swell

[01:47]SNP ministers told critics that they had no big agenda:

[01:52]the aim was more to swell the numbers visiting the place

[01:56]than to inflate nationalist ego.