In Wes Anderson’s New Movie, Real Masterpieces Get a Starring Role
Paintings by Magritte and others were borrowed for “The Phoenician Scheme.” Safeguarding them amid the hot lights and chaos of a film set was challenging.
Something Strange Is Happening To The Internet
And once you notice it, you realise - the internet isn’t evolving. It’s being replaced. 
Asian Nations Expanding Currency Safeguard
Forbes - NY,USA
Financial officials of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea said on Sunday, after a meeting in ...
Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules
By STEPHEN LABATON
Officials say regulatory changes would attract investment and enhance U.S. competitiveness, but critics say the changes would dilute safeguards.
Australia blocks uranium exports to India
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has offered to expand ties with
China in nuclear energy. The Indian leader said the world's two
fastest-growing major economies require new strategies on energy
sources and security. Singh is the first Indian prime minister to
visit China in five years. Meanwhile Australia's new labour
government has announced it will not sell uranium to India unless it
signs the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This reverses a decision
by the previous government. Australia is also discussing
safeguarding planned uranium exports to China. Australia has 40
percent of the world's known reserves of uranium and exports to 36
countries.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) is famous for pampering its employees, but some shareholders feel like they're getting a raw deal.
The sore spot became evident after the Web search leader decided last month to reset the price of underwater employee stock options, in light of a more than 50 percent drop in Google's share price from its November 2007 peak of $747.24.
The move, which will result in a $400 million charge, provoked grumbling among some investors who are not being similarly compensated.
guard
noun [C]
1 a person or group of people whose job is to protect a person, place or thing from danger or attack, or to prevent a person such as a criminal from escaping:
prison guards
security guards
There are guards posted (= standing and watching) at every entrance.
Armed guards are posted around the site.
The frontier is patrolled by border guards.
2 UK (US conductor) a railway official who travels on and is responsible for a train
3 a device that protects a dangerous part of something or that protects something from getting damaged:
a fire guard
a trigger guard
The helmet has a face guard attached.
Guards Show phonetics
plural noun
used in the name of several important regiments (= units) in an army:
the Grenadier Guards
a Guards officer
See also guardsman.
guard Show phonetics
verb [T]
1 to protect someone or something from being attacked or stolen:
Soldiers guard the main doors of the embassy.
2 to watch someone and make certain they do not escape from a place:
Five prison officers guarded the prisoners.
3 to keep information secret:
Journalists jealously (= carefully) guard their sources of information.
safeguard Show phonetics
verb [T]
to protect something from harm:
The union safeguards the interests of all its members.
safeguard Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
The disk has built-in safeguards to prevent certain errors.
safeguard
verb [T]
to protect something from harm:
The union safeguards the interests of all its members.
safeguard
noun [C or U]
The disk has built-in safeguards to prevent certain errors.
safe・guard
grumble
verb [I]
1 to complain about someone or something in an annoyed way:
She spent the evening grumbling to me about her job.
[+ speech] "You never hang your coat up, " she grumbled.
2 If your stomach grumbles, it makes a low continuous noise, usually because you are hungry.
grumble
noun [C usually plural]
a complaint:
If I hear any more grumbles about the food, you can do the cooking yourself!
grumbler
noun [C]
a person who complains a lot
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
IN THE COMING days, the Senate will be tasked with salvaging a badly discredited agency: the Consumer Product Safety Commission. After last year's repeated recalls of unsafe toys and consumer panic over just about everything coming out of China (which covers a lot), the House in December unanimously passed a bill to modernize the agency and increase its funding. The Senate's most recent companion bill, which will probably be voted on next week, in several ways would even better equip the CPSC to deal with the new demands of the global marketplace and rightly restore consumers' faith in the things they buy.
The bill would do several very good things: It would authorize a gradual increase in the agency's funding -- stripped down over the past decade -- to $155.9 million in fiscal 2015 from $63 million in fiscal 2007. It would introduce new safeguards, including tighter limits on lead in toys and other products, and mandatory independent testing of goods before they go to market.
The bill also would allow the commission to more quickly disclose verified product safety risks to consumers and require it to disclose all consumer safety complaints in a public database. Both the commission and industry have grumbled about the latter disclosure requirement, but if properly labeled with the disclaimer that complaints have not yet been investigated by the agency, the database would help disseminate potential safety concerns more quickly and without confusion. A similar database, run by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, already exists for vehicle safety complaints.
The commission and manufacturers have also complained about new authority the legislation would give to state attorneys general to monitor and address safety hazards, as well as new protections that would be afforded whistleblowers in manufacturing. Like the consumer complaints database, however, these changes would promote transparency, oversight and general good behavior. By passing this bill, the Senate would re-empower an agency that has struggled to confront the growing global marketplace's unknown consumer product risks.
verb [T]
1 to make a liquid weaker by mixing in something else:
Dilute the juice (with water) before you drink it.
2 to reduce the strength of a feeling, action, etc:
These measures are designed to dilute public fears about the product's safety.
dilute Show phonetics
adjective (US USUALLY diluted)
made weaker by diluting:
dilute hydrochloric acid
dilution Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
The drug's effectiveness is increased by dilution.
a dilution of standards
di・lute
, 
━━ a. 薄めた, 弱い, 水っぽい.
di・lu・tee
━━ n. （労働希釈をもたらす）未熟練工. di・lu・tion ━━ n. 希釈（した液）.dilution law 【化】希釈の法則.
dilution (of earnings) 株式価値の希薄化.
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