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2019/07/03 - Zdeněk Hřib had been Prague's mayor for little more than a month when he came face-to-face with the Czech ... Hosting a meeting with foreign diplomats in the city, Hřib was asked by the Chinese ambassador to expel their ...
布拉格市长贺瑞普(Zdenek Hrib)对捷克首都布拉格市政厅升挂西藏流亡政府的雪山狮子旗作出回应，并称中国是不可靠的商业伙伴，也是一个充满怨恨的国家。
《华盛顿邮报》周一（12月23日）刊登了市长贺瑞普的一篇名为《为什么我们要在布拉格市政厅悬挂雪山狮子旗》的文章，文章提到在市政厅升起雪山狮子旗“根本不应让中国感到困扰，因为1951年中国与西藏政府达成了协议，赋予了西藏广泛的自治权。”
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《华盛顿邮报》周一（12月23日）刊登了市长贺瑞普的一篇名为《为什么我们要在布拉格市政厅悬挂雪山狮子旗》的文章，文章提到在市政厅升起雪山狮子旗“根本不应让中国感到困扰，因为1951年中国与西藏政府达成了协议，赋予了西藏广泛的自治权。”
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John Keegan illustrates that only when paired with force has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it may one day be in besting al-Qaeda. READ an excerpt here:
In 1965 the world was a very different place. Mothers toiled in the home for an average of four hours every day. By 2012, mothers were doing three times as much paid work, and fathers were doing a bit less. The amount of leisure time that parents have has fallen slightly and they’re spending more time slumped in front of the television. Today’s#Dailychart shows a day in the life of America’s mums and dadshttp://econ.st/1Mt6u1s
Micron Technology will cut about 15% of its global work force the next two years as it battles slumping memory chip prices.
Yahoo is facing seven shareholder lawsuits alleging the slumping Internet pioneer bungled its response to Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid.
Factory Slump Reaches U.S.
The
global slowdown is hitting U.S. manufacturers hard, threatening a key
pillar of the recovery and fueling fears the economy is heading for a
stall.
Recessions Slam Taiwan Computer Hardware Makers
LoanSafe
(Source: By Asia News Network (MCT) - Taipei - Taiwan's dynamic random access memory (Dram) manufacturers were losers in the latest elimination battle in the.
LoanSafe
(Source: By Asia News Network (MCT) - Taipei - Taiwan's dynamic random access memory (Dram) manufacturers were losers in the latest elimination battle in the.
Energy Transfer Moves to Block Rival Bid for Southern Union The fight over Southern Union is heating up.
Last week, Williams made a $4.9 billion bid for the natural gas pipeline operator, besting an earlier $4.2 billion offer from Energy Transfer Equity.
Now, Energy Transfer is telling Southern Union that it can't hold deal talks with Williams, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
Last week, Williams made a $4.9 billion bid for the natural gas pipeline operator, besting an earlier $4.2 billion offer from Energy Transfer Equity.
Now, Energy Transfer is telling Southern Union that it can't hold deal talks with Williams, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
THE BREAKING POINT
Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants
By KEVIN SACK
When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.
slam[slam1]
- 発音記号[slǽm] [動]（〜med, 〜・ming）(他)
4 ((略式))…をけなす, こきおろす；((俗))…に楽勝する.
━━(自)
3 スラムダンス(slam dance)を踊る.
━━[名]
2 ((略式))酷評；悪態.
3 ((米俗))＝slammer.Tiananmen Square Scars Soldier Turned Artist
By ANDREW JACOBS
Chen Guang, an artist and a former soldier who helped clear Tiananmen Square in 1989, has defied officials to describe his experiences there.
Du Bin for The New York Times
Chen Guang, 37, a Beijing painter, was a soldier in Tiananmen in 1989 has created a series of works based on his photographs of the incident.
IPhone Sales Boost Apple Profit
Apple once again defied the recession by posting a 15% increase in quarterly profit as consumers continued to snap up its iPods and iPhones.
Apple Bests Downturn, Faces SEC Probe
Apple defied the recession and tech slump by posting strong sales and profit for the holiday quarter. But it gave a cautious outlook amid news the government is examining how the company disclosed Steve Jobs's health issues.
best (DEFEAT)
verb [T] FORMAL
to defeat someone in a fight or competition:
He bested his opponent in just two rounds.
verb [T]
1 to refuse to obey, or to act or be against, a person, decision, law, situation, etc:
children openly defying their teachers
A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.
A forest fire raging in the south of France is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.
2 defy belief/description/explanation to be extreme or very strange and therefore impossible to believe/describe/explain:
The chaos at the airport defies description.
scar
n.
- A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.
- A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical: nightmares, anxiety, and other enduring scars of wartime experiences.
- Botany. A mark indicating a former attachment, as of a leaf to a stem.
- A mark, such as a dent, resulting from use or contact.
v., scarred, scar·ring, scars. v.tr.
- To mark with a scar.
- To leave lasting signs of damage on: a wretched childhood that scarred his psyche.
- To form a scar: The pustule healed and scarred.
- To become scarred: delicate skin that scars easily.
[Middle English, alteration of escare, from Old French, scab, from Late Latin eschara, from Greek eskhara, hearth, scab caused by burning.]
Definition of
slump in English:
verb
noun
Back to top- slump
- [動](自)1 〈物価・市場などが〉急落［暴落］する.2 〈健康・気力・事業・人気などが〉衰える, 〈効力などが〉低下する.3 どさり［ずしん］と落ちる；どさりと座り込む, ばったりと倒れる；（...
- slumpflation
- [名]不景気下のインフレ.［slump＋inflation］
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