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Censoring of Tweets Sets Off #Outrage

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Twitter's announcement that it would agree to block certain messages in countries where they were deemed illegal prompted outcry, argument and even calls for a boycott.

Japan: not aware of IMF $600 billion euro zone aid plan
Reuters
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese government official said on Thursday he had not heard of a reported $600 billion IMF lending facility to help the euro zone, although Japan would consider providing bilateral loans to the Fund if ...




But critics say the approval process for extending the lifespan of reactors is fraught with problems. Limited amounts of information are disclosed before approval is granted. The government reviews only reports submitted by utilities, and does not conduct its own tests to determine whether those reports are true, according to Chihiro Kamisawa, a nuclear safety researcher at the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Japan’s most vocal nuclear watchdog.


Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies in a boycott of sorts.


French intellectuals, like those in the rest of Europe, have been vocal critics of Google Books. But France does not appear to chafe when it comes to displaying its own literature online, on its own terms.

come to terms
1. Reach an agreement, as in The landlord and his tenants soon came to terms regarding repairs. [Early 1700s]
2. come to terms with. Reconcile oneself to, as in He'd been trying to come to terms with his early life. [Mid-1800s]

vocal
(vō'kəl)
adj.

1. Of or relating to the voice: the vertebrate vocal organs; a vocal defect.
2. Uttered or produced by the voice.
3. Having a voice; capable of emitting sound or speech.
4. Full of voices; resounding: a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children.
5. Tending to express oneself often or freely; outspoken: a vocal critic of city politics.
6. Linguistics.
   1. Of or resembling vowels; vocalic.
   2. Voiced.
7. Music. Of, relating to, or performed by singing: vocal training; vocal music.

n.

1. A vocal sound.
2. Music. A popular composition for a singer, often with instrumental accompaniment.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vōcālis, from vōx, vōc-, voice.]

vocally vo'cal·ly adv.
vocalness vo'cal·ness n.

[形]

1 〈人が〉よくものを言う；（…について）遠慮なく意見を述べる((about ...))

their most vocal opponent
彼らに対して最も口うるさく反対する人

He is not very vocal in class.
教室であまり発言しない.

2 ((通例限定))声の, 音声の；声［音声］を発する；発声に必要な；口頭の；声楽（用）の（⇔instrumental）

the vocal organs
発声器官

the vocal tract
声道

the human vocal faculty
人間の発声能力

a vocal communication
口頭の伝達

vocal music
声楽.

3 ((詩))〈樹木・川などが〉（風や水の音などで）鳴る, 響き渡る((with ...))

The forest was vocal with the sounds of small animals.
森には小さな動物たちの鳴き声が響き渡っていた.

4 《音声学》母音の；有声音の.

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1 ((しばしば〜s))声楽；（伴奏つきの）独唱曲；ボーカル.

2 声；母音, 有声音.

［ラテン語vōcālis （vōx声＋-AL）. △VOCABULARY, VOWEL, ADVOCATE, EQUIVOCAL, VOCATION, VOICE］

vo・cal・ly

[副]声で, 声に出して, 口頭で；声を大にして.

vocal music 歌樂

boycott

boi'kŏt')
tr.v., -cott·ed, -cott·ing, -cotts.
To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion. See synonyms at blackball.

n.
The act or an instance of boycotting.

[After Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), English land agent in Ireland.]

boycotter boy'cott'er n.

WORD HISTORY Charles C. Boycott seems to have become a household word because of his strong sense of duty to his employer. An Englishman and former British soldier, Boycott was the estate agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as a group held most of the land in Ireland. Boycott was chosen in the fall of 1880 to be the test case for a new policy advocated by Charles Parnell, an Irish politician who wanted land reform. Any landlord who would not charge lower rents or any tenant who took over the farm of an evicted tenant would be given the complete cold shoulder by Parnell's supporters. Boycott refused to charge lower rents and ejected his tenants. At this point members of Parnell's Irish Land League stepped in, and Boycott and his family found themselves isolated-without servants, farmhands, service in stores, or mail delivery. Boycott's name was quickly adopted as the term for this treatment, not just in English but in other languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Russian.