2022年4月5日星期二

reverberate, golden parachute, export-led boom, cart away, going head-to-head with

“Russia is half of our business.” Or it was. The Ukraine war is reverberating in Europe’s factories and warehouses.

Fiction
Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art.
The playwright’s son died at 11. “Hamnet,” by the novelist Maggie O’Farrell, considers the death’s reverberations on his family, and his work.

2011年9月9日星期五

Reverberations From Google's Zagat Deal OpenTable shares closed down 8 percent Thursday amid investor fears that Google's deal to buy Zagat meant the tech giant planned on going head-to-head with the restaurant booking site.

EMO FROM TEHRAN

Reverberations as Door Slams on Hope of Change
By BILL KELLERIran’s election ended with smoldering anger, crushed hopes and punctured illusions on the ground in Tehran and in the policy centers of Western capitals.

In the Public Sector, And Well-Compensated
As part of his battle against excessive pay packages, President Obama has taken aim at golden parachutes -- those hefty lump sums that top executives cart away when they leave a job. But the practice is so entrenched that many of the president's own top recruits for White House positions are...
(By Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)
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1.	on Page 4:
	"... text affects the reader and, indeed, what produces such effects on the reader as do occur. What makes great stories reverberate with such liveliness in our ordinarily mundane minds? ..."
2.	on Page 128:
	"... its dra- matic speech act (in Iser's sense), makes the drama reverberate in our reflection. It is an invitation to reflection about manners, morals, and the human condition. This is not abstraction ..."

Plunge in Exports Reverberates Across Asia
Japan reported yesterday that its exports plunged a record 27 percent in November, signaling a dramatic deterioration in the world's second-largest economy and the collapse of the export-led boom that had lifted many Asian nations.
(By Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post)

Slowdown in Persian Gulf Reverberates in Middle East
By MICHAEL SLACKMANA slowdown in the Persian Gulf might feel like a crash landing in places like Egypt, Jordan and Syria, where gulf money has helped prop up strained economies.

Senator Barack Obama and two other prominent Democrats urged federal housing regulators on Tuesday to cut the golden parachutes of the ousted leaders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, another sign that the government bailout of those mortgage giants could reverberate through the presidential campaign, The New York Times' Eric Dash reported.

all-digital v analog signals
TV Stations Make Digital Switch

TV stations across the U.S. are cutting their analog signals, ending a six-decade era for the technology, converting to an all-digital broadcast spectrum

golden parachute noun [C] MAINLY US INFORMAL
a large payment made to someone who has an important job with a company when they are forced to leave their job

reverberate
verb
1 [I] LITERARY If a loud deep sound reverberates, it continues to be heard around an area, so that the area seems to shake:
The narrow street reverberated with/to the sound of the workmen's drills.

2 [I + adverb or preposition] If an event or idea reverberates somewhere, it has an effect on everyone or everything in a place or group:
News of the disaster reverberated around the organization.
The surge in US share prices reverberated across the globe.

reverberation
noun [C usually plural; U] LITERARY
She felt the reverberation(s) in her chest and cursed the drilling outside.
This move is likely to have reverberations (= effects) throughout the health service.