manna, undercut, megawatt celebrity

“I see our job right now, given where we are in the world and what we’ve inherited, as repairing relations, not only with governments but with people,” she said to reporters on Friday.

To do that, Mrs. Clinton is exploiting both her megawatt celebrity and her training during the presidential campaign. On Friday, nearly 3,000 female students packed an auditorium at Ewha Womans University in Seoul to hear Mrs. Clinton deliver a speech that ranged from North Korea’s nuclear threat to the challenge women face in balancing work and family.

Gregg Withdraws As Commerce Pick
Saying he "made a mistake," Republican Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew yesterday as the nominee for commerce secretary, dealing a fresh blow to President Obama's quest to fill out his Cabinet and dramatically undercutting his efforts to forge a new bipartisanship in the capital.
(By Anne E. Kornblut and Michael D. Shear, The Washington Post)


Steve & Barry’s, for the uninitiated, is to fashion what Tower once was to music. Steve & Barry’s is manna, a store that sells stylish celebrity-branded clothes at prices that are absurdly inexpensive, lower than those at Old Navy, H & M or Forever 21, undercutting even Wal-Mart by as much as half.



manna（Heb.）：瑪納；嗎哪（音譯）：希伯來語原文指「這是什麼？」之意，因初見此物，互以「這是什麼 manna？」相問，故名（出十六）；是天主神奇地賜給流浪荒野之選民的長期食糧，亦為聖體之象徵。
manna Hide phonetics
noun [U]
(in the Bible) a food which dropped from heaven and prevented Moses and his people from dying of hunger in the desert

undercut (CHARGE LESS THAN) Hide phonetics
verb [T] undercutting, undercut, undercut
to charge less than a competitor:
Big supermarkets can undercut all rivals, especially small high-street shops.
They claim to undercut their competitors by at least 5%.


undercut (WEAKEN) Show phonetics
verb [T] undercutting, undercut, undercut
to weaken or damage something or to cause it to fail; undermine:
He suspected it was an attempt to undercut his authority.


megawatt
n. - 百萬瓦特

celebrity Hide phonetics
noun ━━ n. 名声; 名士.
1 [C] someone who is famous, especially in the entertainment business

2 [U] the state of being famous