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Trump Ordered Mueller Firing Last June

President Backed Down After Lawyer Threatened to Quit

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN 1:04 AM ET
President Trump wanted the Justice Department to dismiss Robert S. Mueller III, who is overseeing the Russia investigation.
But the top White House lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, said he would resign rather than carry out the directive to ask for Mr. Mueller’s firing.
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我提前做了一份預先醫療指示(Advanced Medical Directive)，意思就是如果我有一天陷入那種必須插管維持生命而又不可能再恢復健康的情況，那麼我的這份預先指示就授權醫生為我拔管不再繼續維持，讓我能死得利索點兒。

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China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs
New York Times - United States
By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that ...


With the rise of Stalin, and a crackdown on avant-garde productions, optimism waned. Habima left Moscow in 1926, and eventually became the national theater of Israel. Goset's visionary director, Aleksei Granovsky, who had worked closely with Chagall in 1920 Moscow, refused directives to return to Moscow from a 1928 tour. While his actors went home, he remained in Berlin and continued to work in Europe.

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  China Orders Halt to Some Construction to Stem Corruption

  By KEITH BRADSHER 4:21 PM ET

  The directive is the latest in a series of initiatives by President Xi Jinping to discourage corruption and grandiose development projects by local officials.
  
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Living Planet | 10.02.2011 | 18:30

Upcycling hits the streets of London

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Materials are reused to keep them out of landfills

Cast-off textiles have been fished out of the trash and turned high fashion works of wonder.

Designers in London are helping to divert mountains of discarded materials away from British landfills. The trend is called ‘upcycling’ and it entails taking used fabrics and reusing them in designs which are both commercially and aesthetically more valuable.

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Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.
The first recorded use of the term upcycling was by Reiner Pilz of Pilz GmbH in an interview by Thornton Kay of Salvo in 1994.^[1]

We talked about the impending EU Demolition Waste Streams directive. "Recycling," he said, "I call it downcycling. They smash bricks, they smash everything. What we need is upcycling where old products are given more value not less." He despairs of the German situation and recalls the supply of a large quantity of reclaimed woodblock from an English supplier for a contract in Nuremberg while just down the road a load of similar blocks was scrapped. In the road outside his premises, was the result of the Germans' demolition waste recycling. It was a pinky looking aggregate with pieces of handmade brick, old tiles and discernible parts of useful old items mixed with crushed concrete. Is this the future for Europe?

directive

Pronunciation: /dɪˈrɛktɪv, dʌɪ-/

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noun

• an official or authoritative instruction:a new EC directive

adjective

• involving the management or guidance of operations:the authority is seeking a directive role in energy policy

Origin:

late Middle English (as an adjective): from medieval Latin directivus, from direct- 'guided, put straight', from the verb dirigere (see direct)

upcycle

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up·​cy·​cle | \ ˈəp-ˌsī-kəl  \

upcycled; upcycling

Definition of upcycle

transitive verb

: to recycle (something) in such a way that the resulting product is of a higher value than the original item : to create an object of greater value from (a discarded object of lesser value)The line upcycles single-use plastic bags that are cleaned and brought in from Bali, Indonesia, and parts of California for use as the main material in the shoes. In the company's first year more than 175,000 plastic bags were reused to create footwear and accessories.— Melissa Magsaysay

Other Word

direct (ORDER) verb [T + object + to infinitive] FORMAL
to order someone, especially officially:
The judge directed the defendant to remain silent.

directions 
plural noun
information or orders telling you what to do:
I couldn't understand the directions on the packet.
He will be giving/issuing directions to judges on sentencing in the next few days.

directive 
noun [C] FORMAL
an official instruction:
The boss issued a directive about not using the fax machine.

injunction

1. The act or an instance of enjoining; a command, directive, or order.
2. Law. A court order prohibiting a party from a specific course of action.

Judicial Remedy awarded to restrain a particular activity; first used by courts of Equity to prevent conduct contrary to equity and good conscience. The injunction is a preventive measure to guard against future injuries, rather than one that affords a remedy for past injuries.


日文
━━ n. 命令; 【法】禁止命令, 履行命令.


香港法律界某名人撰中文 {禁令} 一書


Apple iPhone Hits Snag in Europe

A German court asked a Deutsche Telekom unit to change how it markets the iPhone after Vodafone sought an injunction.

cow   2

Syllabification: cow

Pronunciation: /

 

kou/

verb

[with object] (usually be cowed) Cause (someone) to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation: the intellectuals had been cowed into silence More example sentences

• But we have reached a frightening turning point if artists are cowed into silence by violence and threats.
• Would we do it if we were not cowed by the threat of a US backlash?
• Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.