Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
By the 1930s, platinum blonde hair was in vogue, and actresses Marian Davies and Jean Harlow personified the look of the early 1930s; oddly, hemlines went down again after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, helping to create the ......... theory of economics.
A -
Charleston
B -
flapper
C -
haut couture
D -
skirt length
2-
A ......... attack succeeds when a user is tricked into forming an inaccurate mental model of an online interaction and thus takes actions that have effects contrary to the user's intentions.
A -
flack
B -
phishing
C -
stealth
D -
terrorist
3-
'The Mail on Sunday' called Andy Gilchrist, the fire union leader, a 'fat .........' for his 82,000 salary, but its editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, receives a basic yearly salary of 690,000 — so who's fat?
A -
boy
B -
cat
C -
head
D -
slob
4-
The Companies Act defines '......... equity shares' as equity shares issued by the company to employees or directors at a discount or for consideration other than cash for providing know-how or making available rights in the nature of intellectual property rights or value additions.
A -
staff
B -
stiff
C -
sweat
D -
sweet
5-
A European-type payer ......... gives the owner the right to enter a swap at a predetermined fixed rate, where s/he pays the fixed leg of the contract and receives the floating leg, i.e. the Libor rate, at the expiration (maturity) of the option.
A -
fixation
B -
floption
C -
legation
D -
swaption
6-
Dell bucked the upward trend in hardware manufacturers by closing lower; like Apple and Gateway, the company saw ......... initiated by Needham & Co. though the Austin, Tx. based company was rated a 'Hold', which is a somewhat negative rating.
A -
analysis
B -
assessment
C -
coverage
D -
evaluation
7-
Stock prices used to have a fractional component, which was generally quoted in sixteenths of a dollar (called a ......... by stock market insiders), but there are no major stock markets that trade in sixteenths nowadays — The NYSE converted to the decimal system on January 29, 2001.
A -
cent
B -
chipper
C -
sextile
D -
teenie
8-
The report filed with the SEC added details of the 'corporate .........' Black and Radler created at Hollinger: it said they treated the company as a 'piggybank' and fashion accessory, with Black using the prestige of the newspapers to gain access to the wealthy, powerful and royal.
A -
execracy
B -
hypocracy
C -
kleptocracy
D -
monocracy
9-
......... is based on an assumption that most stocks will complete the first stage of a movement; some of the stocks will cease to advance and others will continue, and the dealer intends to take as many small profits as possible, not allowing them to evaporate.
A -
Scalping
B -
Scraping
C -
Skimming
D -
Skimping
10-
It was agreed that in response to the clamor of the outside public, Daniel Drew was to be officially ousted, and a ......... director put in his place, while he remained in actual charge of their mutual affairs; this was done at the stockholders' meeting of October 18, 1867.