These new fines mark the latest in a series of civil penalties sought by the FAA since the agency announced a “zero-tolerance” policy against disruptive air travelers.
Each of the latest incidents involved alcohol.
China is sending more than 1,000 ventilators to New York, the US epicentre.
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Trump says the coming weeks will be ‘horrendous’ for US
The US president’s remarks came as the country’s cases surpassed 300,000
"The losses are truly horrendous.''
China's Richest People Just Lost About $100 Billion in a Month
The market seesaw is reshaping the global wealth landscape
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Google Dodges Antitrust Hit in Search Probe
One unnamed provincial first party secretary is quoted, by Vogel, as saying that Deng’s view of democracy was like Lord Ye’s view of dragons. “Lord Ye loved looking at a book with pretty pictures of dragons but when a real dragon appeared, he was terrified.” This well-known story about a mythical figure from China’s distant past is customarily told to draw attention to the inconsistency between words and actions.
GM Seeks Cuts at Opel
GM is preparing to disclose "horrendous" fourth quarter losses at its European Opel/Vauxhall unit and is demanding deep cuts from labor unions there.
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
In a series of studies, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely found that inherently creative people tend to cheat more than noncreative people. Furthermore, they showed that inducing creative behavior tends to induce unethical behavior. It's a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking.
U.N. peacekeepers dodge discipline in sex-abuse charges
Six years after the U.N. implemented a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct by its peacekeepers, it's still struggling to persuade member states to investigate and discipline accused soldiers.
"It was horrendous, absolutely gruesome, terrible," passenger Jim Ford told Australian radio. "The worst experience of my life." Passenger Nigel Court said he was terrified to watch people not wearing seat belts — including his wife — fly upward. "She crashed headfirst into the roof above us," he told a reporter. "People were screaming," said Henry Bishop of Oxford, England. A Sri Lankan couple said they were thrown to the ceiling when their seat belts failed. "We saw our own deaths," said Sam Samaratunga, who was traveling with his wife Rani to their son's wedding. "We decided to die together and embraced each other."
Frugal Traveler The Grand Tour
By MATT GROSS
After 10 weeks of navigating Old Towns and inspecting fine restaurants, the Frugal Traveler escapes civilization for the deep forests of the Harz Mountains.
Some say the pub is in crisis. A few years ago, The Guardian reported that for the first time since the Norman Conquest fewer than half the villages of England have a pub. Chains of horrendous corporate-owned “vertical drinking establishments” — giant Identikit bars — threaten the real pubs, and the real pubs are mostly owned by equally horrendous “pubcos,” companies invented to dodge laws against brewing monopolies. Yet somehow real ale, championed by Camra (the Campaign for Real Ale), and real pubs do survive.
Details Emerge in Probe of UBS
UBS frequently teamed up with bankers in Liechtenstein to help clients dodge taxes, records show. Legal pressure on the Swiss bank increased as a former executive agreed to plead guilty to tax fraud and cooperate in the U.S. probe.
dodge
verb
1 [I or T] to avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side:
He dodged to avoid the hurtling bicycle.
2 [T] to avoid something unpleasant:
The minister dodged questions about his relationship with the actress.
dodge
noun [C] INFORMAL
a clever dishonest way of avoiding something:
They bought another car as a tax dodge (= a way to avoid paying tax).
dodgernoun [C]
a person who avoids doing what they should do:
a tax dodger (= someone who avoids paying tax).
dodge
- 発音
- dɑ'dʒ | dɔ'dʒ
- dodgeの変化形
- dodges (複数形) • dodged (過去形) • dodged (過去分詞) • dodging (現在分詞) • dodges (三人称単数現在)
- dodgeの慣用句
- on the dodge, （全1件）
[動](自)
1 （人・打撃などを避けるために）すばやく身をかわす, 巧みに体をかわす.
2 ごまかす, 言いのがれる.
━━(他)
1 〈人・打撃などを〉すばやく身をかわして避ける, 策略でのがれる, 〈問題点・質問などを〉巧みにそらす, ごまかす；［III doing］〈…することを〉のがれる
dodge making a full confession
白状しきらずに済ます.
白状しきらずに済ます.
2 《写真》〈印画の一部を〉おおい焼きする.
━━[名]
3 ((略式))（…のための）考案, 工夫((for ...)).
4 ((米俗))仕事, 職業.
on the dodge
((英略式))不正をして, ごまかしをやって.horrendous
adjective
extremely unpleasant or bad:
a horrendous accident/tragedy/crime
horrendous suffering/damage
Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous.
The firm made horrendous (= very big) losses last year.
horrendously
adverb
horrendously expensive clothes
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