rot, rotten assets, turn the tide / to reverse the tide, rotting grains

Ukrainian Troops Repel Russian Attacks, and Hope Western Arms Turn the Tide

Fierce fighting has yielded heavy casualties but little movement. Ukrainian forces need heavy weapons to change that, but they say it is no guarantee.

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, wrote that, when it comes to organizations, "The tree rots from the top down."

Neil Barofsky, special investigator for the last big bailout, talks with Bill about why oversight of the $2 trillion relief package is crucial. Only hours after signing the bill into law, Trump threatened to ignore the oversight provisions included in it. Listen at the link below.

"There’s going to be scandal involved in this bailout. It is unquestionable. There is going to be fraud committed in this bailout. There are going to be individuals who are unjustly rewarded, and others who should have been saved and rescued, who will be left on the side to rot." — Neil Barofsky

Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Powerful elites enabled the financier accused of trafficking underage girls.

“As an adult, we think that everyone has their friends and we are the only ones seeking them. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

How to Make New Friends as an Adult

Starting in early adulthood, our number of friends starts to decrease steadily; there are ways to reverse the tide, writes Elizabeth Bernstein.

ON.WSJ.COM|作者：ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN

The average worker was dead by 30.

The grim reality of life in ancient Rome revealed

The average ancient Roman worker was riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and was dead by 30 thanks to a diet of rotting grains and a lifetime of hard labour.

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America's toxic-asset plan: Dr Geithner's bank rehab

There should be no shortage of buyers for American banks' rotten assets. Sellers will be harder to entice

In the words of Peter Drucker, "There is no more difficult task than to keep a corpse from rotting." ??

On Flooded Burmese Coast, the Smell of Rot and Death

By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2:13 PM ET

Six days after a cyclone, it is clear the damage is great and that little aid has made it to villagers along the sea south of Yangon.

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rot was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• rot
• dry rot
• rot in jail/prison
• the rot sets in
• stop the rot

rot
verb [I or T] -tt-
to (cause to) decay:
The fruit had been left to rot on the trees.
Rain has got in and rotted (away) the woodwork.
the smell of rotting fruit

rot
noun [U]
1 decay:
Rot has got into the furniture.

2 OLD-FASHIONED INFORMAL nonsense:
"Don't talk rot!"

rotten
adjective
1 decayed:
The room smelled of rotten vegetables.

2 very bad:
rotten weather
OLD-FASHIONED It was rotten of you to leave without saying goodbye. ━━ v. （-tt-） 腐る［らす］; 朽ち（させ）る ((away)); 衰える.
rot off　腐れ落ちる.
━━ n. 腐敗, 腐朽; 腐敗物; （the ～） （羊の）腐敗病; 〔話〕 くだらないこと.
The rot sets in.　事態が傾き出す.
rot・gut　〔俗〕 強い安酒.