Words in the News in the water industry is one of the great opportunities for future decades. take up the slack prendre le relais, prendre la relève Economists forecast that non-mining ventures in Australia will need to take up the slack if the country's economy is to overcome reduced demand from China, its biggest trading partner. talk at cross purposes mener un dialogue de sourds Some commentators described the TV debates prior to the UK May 2015 election as messy, with party leaders addressing several subjects at once and talking at cross purposes. tax affairs situation fiscale Following the publication of the Panama Papers in April 2016, pundits drew attention to the fact that David Cameron's tax affairs were within the law but those of some members of his Cabinet were perhaps less so. tax avoidance évasion fiscale syn. tax dodging In a crackdown on tax avoidance, the OECD* released a package for reform of multinational taxation in October 2015 requiring companies to pay tax where income is earned rather than in countries where they are registered for tax purposes. * Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development tax break avantage fiscal syn. tax relief Commenting on Obama's call in December 2013 to reduce the growing income gap, one political editor wrote that "the tax code 138