南京大学考博英语阅读理解及其解析.pdf

中国考博辅导首选学校 南京大学考博英语阅读理解及其解析 A.Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented opportunities—as well as new and si gnificant risks. Civil right activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics and othe minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is th at they lack of access to the sizable orders and subcontracts tha t are generated by large companies. Now Congress, in apparent ag eement, has required by law that businesses awarded federal cont acts of more than $500, 000 do thei best to find minority subcon tractors and record thei efforts to do so on forms filed with th e government. Indeed, some federal and local agencies have gone s o fa as to set specific percentage goals fo apportioning parts of public works contracts to minority enterprises. Corporate response appears to have been substantial. Accordin g to figures collected in 1977, the total of corporate contracts Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua: si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi e liu qi ba wu sa n qi with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to 1. 1 billion in 1977. The projected total of corporate contracts wit h minority businesses fo the early 1980s is estimated to be ove $3 billion pe yea with no letup anticipated in the next decad e. 中国考博辅导首选学校 Promising as it is fo minority businesses, this increased pa tronage poses dangers fo them, too. First, minority firms risk e xpanding too fast and overextending themselves financially, since most are small concerns and, unlike large businesses, they often need to make substantial investment in new plants, staff, equipm ent and the like in orde to perform work subcontracted to them. If, thereafter, thei sub