Few people are back behind desks and conveyor belts
Miss Suu Kyi, inspiring figure though she is, is an untested leader who has perforce been woefully out of touch with events.
If storms like Desmond become the norm in Britain, the country is woefully unprepared to deal with them
Republicans were quick to raise their objections yesterday and in what was clearly a "worrisome sign for the president," as the New York Times puts it, Sen. Olympia Snow of Maine, one of the few Republicans who voted for the stimulus package, declared that while the president's goals are "worthy" she lamented that the budget "falls woefully short" on fiscal restraint and reducing the deficit.
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe
世界經濟不景氣，在英國似乎又多了一些佐證。
《衛報.》頭版標題是"1978年以來最快的房價跌勢"﹔《每日電訊報》頭條是"有史以來最大規模的房價下跌".....
2016年9月14日 星期三
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Wells Fargo Subpoenaed in Sham Account Inquiries
Goldman Faces New Legal Woes: Goldman Sachs's mortgage woes are far from over. In 2010, the Wall Street investment bank paid $550 million to settle a civil fraud suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The S.E.C. accused Goldman of creating a mortgage product called Abacus 2007-AC1 that was intended to fail. On Tuesday, the firm disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had received more subpoenas related to Abacus and other collateralized debt obligations that it made during the mortgage boom. Goldman has previously revealed that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Financial Services Authority in Britain are looking into Abacus. The firm on Tuesday said that it had received subpoenas from other unnamed regulators in connection to Abacus and other C.D.O.'s. In a filing in late March, the firm disclosed only that it had received requests for information from unnamed regulators. A subpoena is a more serious step.
subpoena
səˈpiːnə/
LAW
noun
- 1.a writ ordering a person to attend a court."a subpoena may be issued to compel their attendance"
verb
- 1.summon (someone) with a subpoena."the Queen is above the law and cannot be subpoenaed"
abacus
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n., pl., ab·a·cus·es, or ab·a·ci (ăb'ə-sī', ə-băk'ī').
- A manual computing device consisting of a frame holding parallel rods strung with movable counters.
- Architecture. A slab on the top of the capital of a column.
[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek abax, abak-, counting board, perhaps from Hebrew 'ābāq, dust.]
WORD HISTORY The adjective dusty, with its connotations of disuse and age, might seem an appropriate word to describe the abacus, since this counting device was used for solving arithmetical problems in the days before calculators and computers. Originally the abacus was, in fact, dusty. The source of our word abacus, the Greek word abax, probably comes from Hebrew 'ābāq, "dust," although the details of transmission are obscure. In postbiblical usage 'ābāq meant "sand used as a writing surface." The Greek word abax has as one of its senses "a board sprinkled with sand or dust for drawing geometric diagrams." This board is a relative of the abacus with movable counters strung on rods that is familiar to us. The first use of the word abacus, recorded in Middle English in a work written before 1387, refers to a sand-board abacus used by the Arabs. The difference in form between the Middle English word abacus and its Greek source abax is explained by the fact that Middle English borrowed Latin abacus, which came from the Greek genitive form (abakos) of abax.
perforce
pəˈfɔːs/
adverb
formal
- used to express necessity or inevitability."amateurs, perforce, have to settle for less expensive solutions"
synonyms: necessarily, of necessity, inevitably, unavoidably, by force of circumstances, needs must; More
plural noun FORMAL
great problems or troubles:
The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.
Unusually poor harvests have added to the country's woes.
housing
noun [U]
buildings for people to live in:
There's a shortage of cheap housing in the region.
woe
noun [U] LITERARY
extreme sadness:
Her face was lined and full of woe.
He told me a real tale of woe about how he had lost both his job and his house in the same week.
woeful
adjective FORMAL
extremely sad:
She was looking very woeful, with her eyes red and swollen.
See also woeful.
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