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From the Ted Talk by Katherine M. Gehl: US politics isn't broken. It's fixed

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Everything I need to know about politics, I learned from cheese. For the last decade of my bssineus career, I ran a 250-million-dollar food cpmanoy in Wisconsin. And yes, we made cheese. If customers liked my cheese, I did well. If they didn't, they boguht cheese from someone else and I did less well. That's healthy competition. Healthy competition incentivizes businesses to make better products. Better products equals hpaeipr customers and happier customers eulqas successful businesses. Win-win.

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Everything I need to know about politics, I learned from cheese. For the last decade of my ________ career, I ran a 250-million-dollar food _______ in Wisconsin. And yes, we made cheese. If customers liked my cheese, I did well. If they didn't, they ______ cheese from someone else and I did less well. That's healthy competition. Healthy competition incentivizes businesses to make better products. Better products equals _______ customers and happier customers ______ successful businesses. Win-win.

Solution

  1. business
  2. company
  3. happier
  4. bought
  5. equals

Original Text

Everything I need to know about politics, I learned from cheese. For the last decade of my business career, I ran a 250-million-dollar food company in Wisconsin. And yes, we made cheese. If customers liked my cheese, I did well. If they didn't, they bought cheese from someone else and I did less well. That's healthy competition. Healthy competition incentivizes businesses to make better products. Better products equals happier customers and happier customers equals successful businesses. Win-win.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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general election 3
happier customers 2
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bad rule 2
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election ballot 2
plurality voting 2
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politics industry theory 3
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Important Words

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  2. business
  3. businesses
  4. career
  5. cheese
  6. company
  7. competition
  8. customers
  9. decade
  10. equals
  11. food
  12. happier
  13. healthy
  14. incentivizes
  15. learned
  16. politics
  17. products
  18. ran
  19. successful
  20. wisconsin