send-off, stagger, send sb off, Staggered Board of Directors

Spectrum | 26.05.2009 | 17:30

Reconstructing images of past sea life that boggles today's imagination

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Using such diverse sources as old ship logs, literary texts, tax accounts, newly translated legal documents and even mounted trophies, Census of Marine Life researchers are piecing together images of fish of such sizes, abundance and distribution in ages past that they stagger modern imaginations.

The researchers from Census' History of Marine Animal Population (HMAP) project

are also documenting the timelines over which those giant marine life populations declined. Their findings are being presented at a major international conference which is taking place at the moment in Vancouver, Canada. Rajiv Sharma spoke to Dr. Poul Holm, Professor at Trinity College Dublin and global chair of the HMAP project and asked him first how they had arrived at the conclusions in their research which revealed that marine life in the past was far bigger in size and more abundant than today.

eijing Olympics: Where Are the Japanese Tourists?
BusinessWeek - USA
Japan Olympic athletes attend a send-off party in Tokyo. Japan will send 339 athletes to the games in Beijing. Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images by Hiroko Tashiro ...



Olympic torch relay staggers through Asia; relegated to parking ...
International Herald Tribune - FranceAP TOKYO:
It was supposed to all start with a gala send-off at one of Japan's most venerable and majestic Buddhist temples, the 1400-year-old Zenkoji. ...


Microsoft's stock has fallen 12.8 percent since it announced its offer two weeks ago, reducing the nominal value of the deal to about $41 billion. Many Yahoo shareholders, including Bill Miller of Legg Mason, have said that Microsoft must raise its bid to strike a deal.

But raising the $31-per-share offer would cost Microsoft an additional $1.4 billion for every dollar added. Waging a proxy fight is comparatively cheaper. And because it does not have a staggered board, Yahoo's board is vulnerable in a proxy fight.


Staggered Board of Directors
Board of directors of a company in which a portion of the directors are elected each year, instead of all at once. A board is often staggered in order to thwart unfriendly Takeover attempts, since potential acquirers would have to wait a longer time before they could take control of a company's board through the normal voting procedure. Normally, all directors are elected at the annual meeting.

stag・ger

━━ v. よろける［させる］, 動揺する［させる］, ためらう［わせる］; 仰天させる; 無力にさせる (a story that ～s the imagination 想像を絶する話）; 互い違いに配列する; （出退時間・昼休みなどを）時差方式にする.
━━ n. よろめき; （pl.） めまい; （the ～s） ((単数扱い)) （ヒツジ・馬の）旋回［暈(うん)倒］病 （blind staggers）; （複葉機の翼の）互い違い（の配列）.
staggered conformation　【化】ねじれ形配座, スタッガード配座.
stag・ger・er　━━ n. よろめく人; 大事件, 難問題.
stag・ger・ing　━━ a. よろめく［かせる］, びっくりさせる.
stag・ger・ing・ly　ad.

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stagger (MOVE) Show phonetics verb
[I usually + adverb or preposition] to walk or move with a lack of balance as if you are going to fall:After he was attacked, he managed to stagger to the phone and call for help.
FIGURATIVE The company is staggering under a $15 million debt and will almost certainly collapse by the end of the year.
stagger Show phonetics noun [C usually singular]
He left the pub with a drunken stagger.



stagger (SHOCK) Show phonetics
verb [T] to cause someone to feel shocked or surprised because of something unexpected or very unusual happening:
He staggered all his colleagues by suddenly announcing that he was leaving the company at the end of the month.


staggered Show phonetics
adjective [after noun]very shocked or surprised:
I was staggered at the prices.

staggering Show phonetics adjective
very shocking and surprising:It costs a staggering $50 000 per week to keep the museum open to the public.

staggeringly Show phonetics adverb
staggeringly expensive



send-off Show phonetics
noun [C usually singular]an occasion at which people can express good wishes and say goodbye to someone who is leaving a place:
We'll have to give her a good send-off when she leaves the office.

WordNet: send-off

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: an organized expression of goodwill at the start of a trip or new venture
Synonym: bon voyage

Meaning #2: a start given to contestants
Synonyms: kickoff, start-off

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send sb off (SPORT) phrasal verb [M] (US eject) UK
to order a sports player to leave the playing area during a game because they have done something wrong:
He was sent off for swearing at the referee.