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From the Ted Talk by Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything

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You know my example of the Eurostar: six million pounds spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes. For 0.01 percent of this money, you could have put wi-fi on the trains, which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the jeounry, but would have improved its enjoyment and its usneulefss far more. For maybe 10 percent of the money, you could have paid all of the world's top male and female slopeedrmus to walk up and down the train handing out free Château Pétrus to all the passengers.

(Laughter)

You'd still have five million punods in cnhgae, and people would ask for the trains to be slowed down.

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You know my example of the Eurostar: six million pounds spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes. For 0.01 percent of this money, you could have put wi-fi on the trains, which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the _______, but would have improved its enjoyment and its __________ far more. For maybe 10 percent of the money, you could have paid all of the world's top male and female ___________ to walk up and down the train handing out free Château Pétrus to all the passengers.

(Laughter)

You'd still have five million ______ in ______, and people would ask for the trains to be slowed down.

Solution


  1. change
  2. journey
  3. pounds
  4. usefulness
  5. supermodels

Original Text


You know my example of the Eurostar: six million pounds spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes. For 0.01 percent of this money, you could have put wi-fi on the trains, which wouldn't have reduced the duration of the journey, but would have improved its enjoyment and its usefulness far more. For maybe 10 percent of the money, you could have paid all of the world's top male and female supermodels to walk up and down the train handing out free Château Pétrus to all the passengers.

(Laughter)

You'd still have five million pounds in change, and people would ask for the trains to be slowed down.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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austrian school 2
prior discipline 2
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Important Words


  1. change
  2. château
  3. duration
  4. enjoyment
  5. female
  6. free
  7. handing
  8. improved
  9. journey
  10. laughter
  11. london
  12. male
  13. million
  14. minutes
  15. money
  16. paid
  17. paris
  18. passengers
  19. people
  20. percent
  21. pounds
  22. put
  23. pétrus
  24. reduce
  25. reduced
  26. slowed
  27. spent
  28. supermodels
  29. time
  30. top
  31. train
  32. trains
  33. usefulness
  34. walk