61. "After the merger, the company will likely ________ several departments."
a. separate (trennen)
b. consolidate (konsolidieren)
c. diversify (diversifizieren)

62. "The HR department has to ________ more staff to handle the increased workload."
a. recruit (rekrutieren)
b. expel (verweisen)
c. displace (verdrängen)

63. "To stay competitive, we must ________ and improve our products continuously."
a. stagnate (stagnieren)
b. imitate (imitieren)
c. innovate (innovieren)

64. "Our team managed to ________ the customer's complaint efficiently."
a. escalate (eskalieren)
b. ignore (ignorieren)
c. resolve (lösen)

65. "We should ________ the process to save time and reduce errors."
a. simplify (vereinfachen)
b. complicate (komplizieren)
c. multiply (multiplizieren)

66. "The marketing director is going to ________ the new campaign next week."
a. conclude (abschließen)
b. suspend (aussetzen)
c. launch (starten)

67. "The company will ________ its portfolio to reduce risk."
a. streamline (straffen)
b. diversify (diversifizieren)
c. limit (begrenzen)

68. "Before making a decision, we must ________ all the possible outcomes."
a. disregard (ignorieren)
b. evaluate (bewerten)
c. guess (raten)

69. "The company has plans to ________ its computer systems next year."
a. downgrade (herabstufen)
b. upgrade (aufrüsten)
c. maintain (instand halten)

70. "To improve efficiency, we must ________ more of our production processes."
a. manualize (manuell bearbeiten)
b. automate (automatisieren)
c. stagnate (stagnieren)