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From the Ted Talk by Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And ieedndenpnt Diplomat, tdoay, tries to incorporate some of the things I learned at ?What If!. We all sit in one office and souht at each other across the office. We all work on little laptops and try to move desks to change the way we think. And we use naive experts who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with, but may know something about something else to try to inject new thinking into the problems that we try to aedsrds for our clients. It's not easy, because our clients, by definition, are having a difficult time, diplomatically.
Open Cloze
And ___________ Diplomat, _____, tries to incorporate some of the things I learned at ?What If!. We all sit in one office and _____ at each other across the office. We all work on little laptops and try to move desks to change the way we think. And we use naive experts who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with, but may know something about something else to try to inject new thinking into the problems that we try to _______ for our clients. It's not easy, because our clients, by definition, are having a difficult time, diplomatically.
Solution
- independent
- today
- shout
- address
Original Text
And Independent Diplomat, today, tries to incorporate some of the things I learned at ?What If!. We all sit in one office and shout at each other across the office. We all work on little laptops and try to move desks to change the way we think. And we use naive experts who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with, but may know something about something else to try to inject new thinking into the problems that we try to address for our clients. It's not easy, because our clients, by definition, are having a difficult time, diplomatically.
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