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From the Ted Talk by Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair

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So at a national level — and we work in about 60 different countries — at a natniaol level we've got a serious bkwaerdon in the ability of governments to regulate production on their own soil. And the real problem with the global supply chian is that it's srtuponiaanal. So governments who are failing, who are dropping the ball at a national level, have even less ability to get their arms around the problem at an international level. And you can just look at the headlines. Take Copenhagen last year — complete failure of governments to do the right thing in the face of an international challenge. Take the G20 meeting a couple of weeks ago — stepped back from its commitments of just a few mtnhos ago. You can take any one of the major glaobl challenges we've discussed this week and ask yourself, where is the leadership from governments to step up and come up with solutions, responses, to those international permlobs? And the simple answer is they can't. They're national. Their voters are local. They have pcahraoil interests. They can't sdobuainrte those interests to the greater global public good.

Open Cloze


So at a national level — and we work in about 60 different countries — at a ________ level we've got a serious _________ in the ability of governments to regulate production on their own soil. And the real problem with the global supply _____ is that it's _____________. So governments who are failing, who are dropping the ball at a national level, have even less ability to get their arms around the problem at an international level. And you can just look at the headlines. Take Copenhagen last year — complete failure of governments to do the right thing in the face of an international challenge. Take the G20 meeting a couple of weeks ago — stepped back from its commitments of just a few ______ ago. You can take any one of the major ______ challenges we've discussed this week and ask yourself, where is the leadership from governments to step up and come up with solutions, responses, to those international ________? And the simple answer is they can't. They're national. Their voters are local. They have _________ interests. They can't ___________ those interests to the greater global public good.

Solution


  1. supranational
  2. global
  3. chain
  4. problems
  5. subordinate
  6. national
  7. breakdown
  8. months
  9. parochial

Original Text


So at a national level — and we work in about 60 different countries — at a national level we've got a serious breakdown in the ability of governments to regulate production on their own soil. And the real problem with the global supply chain is that it's supranational. So governments who are failing, who are dropping the ball at a national level, have even less ability to get their arms around the problem at an international level. And you can just look at the headlines. Take Copenhagen last year — complete failure of governments to do the right thing in the face of an international challenge. Take the G20 meeting a couple of weeks ago — stepped back from its commitments of just a few months ago. You can take any one of the major global challenges we've discussed this week and ask yourself, where is the leadership from governments to step up and come up with solutions, responses, to those international problems? And the simple answer is they can't. They're national. Their voters are local. They have parochial interests. They can't subordinate those interests to the greater global public good.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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