full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Katherine M. Gehl: US politics isn't broken. It's fixed
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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.
Open Cloze
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
- business
- company
- happier
- bought
- 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
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
politics industry |
6 |
healthy competition |
5 |
party primaries |
5 |
industry theory |
3 |
general election |
3 |
happier customers |
2 |
public interest |
2 |
bad rule |
2 |
rule number |
2 |
election ballot |
2 |
plurality voting |
2 |
instant runoffs |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
collocation |
frequency |
politics industry theory |
3 |
bad rule number |
2 |
general election ballot |
2 |
Important Words
- bought
- business
- businesses
- career
- cheese
- company
- competition
- customers
- decade
- equals
- food
- happier
- healthy
- incentivizes
- learned
- politics
- products
- ran
- successful
- wisconsin