You are going to listen to the introduction to the course. Before you listen to the abstract look at these statements. After you have listened to the abstract determine whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Explain why.
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| The company of Harper & Grant Ltd. was started forty-two years ago by Ambrose Harper and Hector Grant.
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| Ambrose Harper’s son Hector is the present Managing Director. He is in his fifties (aged between forty and fifty).
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| Though the Chairman of the company, Ambrose Harper, is old and semi-retired, he still attends the board meetings and keeps an eye on the business.
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| At the beginning of its activity Harper & Grant Ltd. produced wastepaper baskets made of cane or straw.
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| Wingate Grant managed to put the business on its feet when he captured a big contract to supply government offices with steel wastepaper bins.
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| Mr. Grant Senior used to tell the story that once a cane wastepaper basket had caught fire in his office and a number of irreplaceable documents were destroyed by the fire. After that he decided to make steel wastepaper bins for offices.
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| Nowadays Harper & Grant Ltd. manufacture different items of office equipment: not only desks, chairs, cupboards, filing cabinets but also smaller objects, such as filing trays, stapling machines and so on. All in all there are fifty-six various items listed in their catalogue.
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