balance, realm, earthly realm, to pressure, phony receipts

In the last decade or so of his life, it had become a commonplace to call Wayne Shorter jazz’s greatest living composer. There was simply no ambiguity about it, he was the one.

Now that the saxophonist has left the earthly realm, at the age of 89, does that distinction become eternal? It’s hard to think of another musician whose writing style worked its way so indelibly into the DNA of jazz: how the music is composed, how it’s played, how we think about it.

Coin of Realm in China Graft: Phony Receipts

By DAVID BARBOZA

Sales of counterfeit receipts, used to evade taxes and defraud employers, are becoming more sophisticated, putting considerable tax revenue at stake.

Apple Suit Could Pressure HTC

Apple's move comes as the Taiwanese smart-phone maker struggles to compete against bigger rivals to sell smart phones to the mass market.

An Earthly Realm for a Soccer God

By DAN ROSENHECK

Diego Maradona, Argentina’s sporting titan, will try his hand at managing the country’s men’s national team.

With the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once reserved for dictators like Hitler and Stalin.




balance 是工商界重要的用語。最根本的是會計上的損益平衡表（balance sheet）。



作為衡量機制的平衡計分卡（Balanced Scorecard，BSC）觀念，約在1990年推出，現在成為人們耳熟能詳的名詞。它直指傳統財務衡量指標的限制，提出一套新框架，把財務指標觸及不到的領域，也就是看不見的企業無形價值，納入企業的衡量架構。即，除了能呈現過去績效的「財務」指標，還加入「客戶」、「內部流程」和「學習與發展」三大牽動未來的重要指標。

 phony receipts 假發票

書籍： Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ,HBS Press Book. 1996
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新聞:Nintendo Launches 'Balance Board' That Players Manipulate With Feet

At the E3 conference Wednesday, Nintendo showed how it plans to take the Wii even deeper into the realm of fitness with a new controller that users manipulate with their feet. Players will stand atop the pressure sensitive controller, with the preliminary name of Wii Balance Board, which detects the presence of players' feet and subtle shifts in their weight to control on-screen action.

realm

(rĕlm)
n.

1. A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
2. A field, sphere, or province: the realm of science. See synonyms at field.

[Middle English realme, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Old French reial, royal) of Latin regimen, government, from regere, to rule.]

noun

archaic, literary, or Law

• a kingdom:the defence of the realm
• a field or domain of activity or interest:the realm of applied chemistry an overall Labour majority is not beyond the realms of possibility
• Zoology a primary biogeographical division of the earth’s surface: this zoogeographical realm includes Africa south of the Atlas Mountains

Origin:

Middle English rewme, from Old French reaume, from Latin regimen 'government' (see regimen). The spelling with -l- (standard from circa1600) was influenced by Old French reiel 'royal'

realm

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━━ n. 〔雅〕 【法】（時にR-） 王国; 領土; 範囲, 分野, 部門, 領域.