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From the Ted Talk by Augie Picado: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When someone mentions Cuba, what do you think about? Classic, cisalsc cars? Perhaps good cigars? Maybe you think of a fmauos baseball player. What about when somebody mentions nroth Korea? You think about those mislsie ttess, maybe their notorious leedar or his good friend, Dennis Rodman.

(Laughter)

One thing that likely doesn't come to mind is a vision of a country, an open economy, whose citizens have access to a wide range of affordable consumer products.

I'm not here to argue how these countries got to where they are today. I simply want to use them as an example of countries and citizens who have been affected, negatively affected, by a trdae policy that rtcrtesis imports and protects local industries. Recently we've heard a number of countries talk about restricting imports and protecting their local, ditosemc industries. Now, this may sound fine in a sound bite, but what it really is is protectionism. We heard a lot about this during the 2016 paresietdinl election. We heard about it during the Brexit debates and most recently during the French elections. In fact, it's been a really important toipc being talked about around the wrlod, and many aspiring political leaders are running on platforms pitoionnsig protectionism as a good thing.

Open Cloze


When someone mentions Cuba, what do you think about? Classic, _______ cars? Perhaps good cigars? Maybe you think of a ______ baseball player. What about when somebody mentions _____ Korea? You think about those _______ _____, maybe their notorious ______ or his good friend, Dennis Rodman.

(Laughter)

One thing that likely doesn't come to mind is a vision of a country, an open economy, whose citizens have access to a wide range of affordable consumer products.

I'm not here to argue how these countries got to where they are today. I simply want to use them as an example of countries and citizens who have been affected, negatively affected, by a _____ policy that _________ imports and protects local industries. Recently we've heard a number of countries talk about restricting imports and protecting their local, ________ industries. Now, this may sound fine in a sound bite, but what it really is is protectionism. We heard a lot about this during the 2016 ____________ election. We heard about it during the Brexit debates and most recently during the French elections. In fact, it's been a really important _____ being talked about around the _____, and many aspiring political leaders are running on platforms ___________ protectionism as a good thing.

Solution


  1. positioning
  2. famous
  3. restricts
  4. topic
  5. trade
  6. world
  7. tests
  8. missile
  9. presidential
  10. domestic
  11. leader
  12. north
  13. classic

Original Text


When someone mentions Cuba, what do you think about? Classic, classic cars? Perhaps good cigars? Maybe you think of a famous baseball player. What about when somebody mentions North Korea? You think about those missile tests, maybe their notorious leader or his good friend, Dennis Rodman.

(Laughter)

One thing that likely doesn't come to mind is a vision of a country, an open economy, whose citizens have access to a wide range of affordable consumer products.

I'm not here to argue how these countries got to where they are today. I simply want to use them as an example of countries and citizens who have been affected, negatively affected, by a trade policy that restricts imports and protects local industries. Recently we've heard a number of countries talk about restricting imports and protecting their local, domestic industries. Now, this may sound fine in a sound bite, but what it really is is protectionism. We heard a lot about this during the 2016 presidential election. We heard about it during the Brexit debates and most recently during the French elections. In fact, it's been a really important topic being talked about around the world, and many aspiring political leaders are running on platforms positioning protectionism as a good thing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
manufacturing jobs 5
lost manufacturing 3
produce products 3
general contractor 3
shared production 3
trade agreements 2
tail assemblies 2
percent increase 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
lost manufacturing jobs 3

Important Words


  1. access
  2. affected
  3. affordable
  4. argue
  5. aspiring
  6. baseball
  7. bite
  8. brexit
  9. cars
  10. cigars
  11. citizens
  12. classic
  13. consumer
  14. countries
  15. country
  16. cuba
  17. debates
  18. dennis
  19. domestic
  20. economy
  21. election
  22. elections
  23. fact
  24. famous
  25. fine
  26. french
  27. friend
  28. good
  29. heard
  30. important
  31. imports
  32. industries
  33. korea
  34. laughter
  35. leader
  36. leaders
  37. local
  38. lot
  39. mentions
  40. mind
  41. missile
  42. negatively
  43. north
  44. notorious
  45. number
  46. open
  47. platforms
  48. player
  49. policy
  50. political
  51. positioning
  52. presidential
  53. products
  54. protecting
  55. protectionism
  56. protects
  57. range
  58. restricting
  59. restricts
  60. rodman
  61. running
  62. simply
  63. sound
  64. talk
  65. talked
  66. tests
  67. today
  68. topic
  69. trade
  70. vision
  71. wide
  72. world