2020年3月4日星期三

billing, overbilling, forgo/forego, foregone conclusion, booking

Tourists across the globe are canceling bookings as the coronavirus outbreak halts travel. Here are the countries with the most to lose if tourists stay away. https://trib.al/liwWuEQ

Navy Suspends 2nd Contractor After Evidence of Overbilling

By CHRISTOPHER DREW and DANIELLE IVORY

The Navy said it had suspended a ship-supply company for significantly overcharging on a contract, the second such suspension since mid-September.

AT&T to Offer Option to Forgo Wireless Contract

The papers continue to give top billing to Iran, where hundreds of thousands of protesters ignored a ban and marched through central Tehran to protest the result of Friday's presidential election.

“I’m sorry, but this is Koizumi country,” one commuter explained.
He was referring to Junichiro Koizumi, the popular former prime minister whose family has represented this naval port an hour southwest of Tokyo for three generations. In announcing his retirement last autumn, Mr. Koizumi anointed his son, Shinjiro, as successor — making the son’s election as a fourth-generation lawmaker all but a foregone conclusion here.

India's Tata Motors said it will launch its minicar Nano on March 23 and will begin taking bookings from the second week of April.

PARIS — Even as the bailout package for Detroit’s automakers remains a question, automakers in Europe and Asia are lining up for handouts.
“It’s a foregone conclusion that governments around the world are going to aid these companies,” Dennis DesRosiers, an independent auto analyst in Toronto, said. “It’s just a matter of working through the politics.”

The Republican Party officially nominated John McCain to be the GOP's presidential candidate last night. But that was hardly the highlight at the Republican Convention, where delegates were "riveted less on the foregone conclusion of the roll call vote than on the national, prime-time debut of his running mate," notes USA Today. Indeed, the papers give top billing to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was catapulted to the national political stage last week and has been dealing with a rocky coming-out party.

Spotlight


Shirley Temple, Going Places (c. 1935)

The little girl with the head full of curls, who at the age of six was already singing and dancing her way into the hearts of people the world over, is turning 80 today. Shirley Temple was the top-billed star of the mid-1930s. In 1932, Temple earned $50 for two days of work on one of her first films, The Red-Haired Alibi; by 1934, she was making $1,000 a week plus a $35,000 bonus at the end of each film. Her mother accompanied her to work each day, pinned her hair into 56 corkscrew curls and sent her before the cameras with an encouraging, "Sparkle, Shirley. Sparkle!"

Quote

"When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was... I've been getting younger ever since." — Shirley Temple Black

GE's Accounting Draws Fresh Focus On News of Improper Sales Bookings

By Kathryn Kranhold

Word Count: 360 | Companies Featured in This Article: General Electric

General Electric Co.'s accounting practices are again in the spotlight after GE revealed that employees had improperly booked locomotive sales in 2000 through 2003.
The dollar figures involved were relatively small for a company of GE's size. In 2002, for example, the changes reduced revenue by $158 million and net income by $22 million, less than 0.2% of GE's net income, according to a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

業務部重要數目有: BOOKINGS/BILLINGS /BACKLOGS
分別表示:訂單確認/進帳/待出貨
所謂不當bookings 是指諸多如拿假定單當業績等等.....

book (ARRANGE)
verb [I or T]
to arrange to have a seat, room, entertainer, etc. at a particular time in the future:
[+ two objects] I've booked us two tickets to see 'Carmen'/I've booked two tickets for us to see 'Carmen'.
She'd booked a table for four at their favourite restaurant.
Will booked a seat on the evening flight to Edinburgh.
We were advised to book early if we wanted to get a room.
They booked a jazz band for their wedding.
The hotel/restaurant/theatre is fully booked (up) (= all the rooms/tables/tickets have been taken).
I'd like to go but I'm afraid I'm booked up (= I have arranged to do other things) until the weekend.

bookable
adjective
bookable seats

booking
noun [C]
We made the booking three months ago.
Julian was ill so we had to cancel the booking.
The show had already taken £4 million in advance bookings.
I filled in the booking form and sent it off.

Billing is a film term denoting the amount and order in which film credits information is presented in advertising and on the film itself. Information given in billing usually consists of the actors appearing in the movie, the directors, producers, the companies producing and distributing the movie (by name and/or logo), and artistic and technical crew. The title of the movie is also considered to be part of the billing.

billing
n.

The relative importance of performers as indicated by the position and type size in which their names are listed on programs, theater marquees, or advertisements: top billing.
Advertising; promotion: The product needed better billing to outsell its competition.
The total amount of business done in a spec

foregone conclusion
noun [C usually singular]
a result that is obvious to everyone even before it happens:
The result of the election seems to be a foregone conclusion.

fore・gone

━━ v., a. foregoの過去分詞; 以前の; 既往の.

foregone conclusion　初めから分っている結論; 必然［不可避］の結果.

forgo

verb (forgoes, forgoing, forwent; past participle forgone)

[with object]

omit or decline to take (something pleasant or valuable); go without:she wanted to forgo the dessert and leave while they could
refrain from:we forgo any comparison between the two men

Origin:

Old English forgān (see for-, go¹)

Forgo (meaning 'go without something you want') can also be spelled forego, but it is best to use the spelling forgo so as to avoid confusion with forego, which is an old-fashioned word meaning 'come before'.

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