2024年5月20日 星期一

rage over, soil, fallow, leading to rationing. the 152-date, billion-dollar stadium takeover that began last year, resumed abroad before it returns to the U.S. in October.


And earlier this month, Swift’s Eras Tour, the 152-date, billion-dollar stadium takeover that began last year, resumed abroad before it returns to the U.S. in October.


a killing on Canadian soil.



U.S. Drug Shortages Are Near an All-Time High, Leading to Rationing

A scarcity of cancer drugs has heightened concerns about the generic drug industry. Congress and the White House are seeking ways to address supply problems.



Out of the Public Eye, a Debate Is Raging Over a Postwar Ukraine Economy

Beyond the enormous cost of rebuilding the country are difficult and delicate choices about how to best connect the nation to the European economy.

A Gray Area of Loyalties Splinters a Liberated Ukrainian Town

The town of Sviatohirsk remains divided by where people’s allegiances lie: with Moscow or Kyiv. “Friends are not friends anymore,” said one woman.

After fallow decades 


Mr. Lee worried that mainland Chinese film, after a long fallow period, was growing too quickly with too great a focus on box office blockbusters. “Give the Chinese market some time,” he said. If it were allowed to naturally grow, he added, China could set an example for an American film industry that itself is “not very healthy.”

Mega-Mergers See Comeback as Uncertainty Fades

The last half-decade was a fallow period for takeovers. But major deals involving the ketchup maker H. J. Heinz, two airlines and the computer company Dell suggest a turn in the cycle.


 Japan golf star Ishikawa ends title drought
AFP
Ishikawa, who is now 21 years and one month old, fired a 4-under-par 68 for a winning total of 15-under 273 in the 150 million yen ($1.9 million) Taiheiyo Masters, sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour (JGTO). His last victory came at the same event in 2010.


On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing石油配給, beginning December 1.



Low Profile for Chrysler After a Year of Change

By BILL VLASIC
Sergio Marchionne, the carmaker’s chief executive, said that the company had to endure a fallow period before it could refresh its vehicle lineup.


USA Today leads with a look at how the first two months of 2009 have marked the driest start of any year since the government began to keep track in 1895. The dry conditions have led to a severe drought in Texas and farmers are increasingly worried it will be a bad year for crops while firefighters say it could lead to a longer fire season.

Schwarzenegger declares drought emergency
Three years of near-drought in California have prompted its governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare an emergency. He's urged urban authorities to cut water usage by 20 percent and warned of rationing. Supplies to farms are to be reduced, noteably in California's Central Valley with its massively irrigated fields. Drought has already forced some farmers to leave their fields fallow. Thousands of agricultural workers are idle. Over the past year, falls of rain and snow have been 75 percent below normal. Sources of drinking water for the state's 37 million inhabitants are 35 percent below capacity.
Pakistan Announces Arrests for Mumbai Attacks
Pakistan said that parts of the terrorist attacks were planned on its soil. Several suspects are being held.



Last month, the EU suspended a requirement for farmers to keep 10% of land fallow and raised quotas that limit the amount of milk each EU nation is allowed to produce. It's proving much tougher for nations to agree on removing individual subsidies or figure out how to use EU farm money to lower food prices.


'Ethics Landscape' Slightly Fallow
Human Resource Executive Online - Horsham,PA,USA



rage
/reɪdʒ/
noun
  1. 1.
    violent uncontrollable anger.
    "her face was distorted with rage"
    相似詞:
    temper
    fit of rage/fury/anger/temper
    fit of bad/ill temper
    towering rage
    bad temper
    pet
    fit of pique
    tantrum
    fury
    frenzy of rage/anger
    rampage
    paroxysm of rage/anger
    passion
    bad mood
    mood
    mard
    grump
    strop
    state
    blowout
    hissy fit
    bate
    wax
    skid
    paddywhack
  2. 2.
    vehement desire or passion.
    "a rage for absolute honesty informs much western art"
    相似詞:
    craze
    passion
    fashion
    taste
    desire
    craving
    appetite
    trend
    vogue
    fad
    enthusiasm
    love
    obsession
    compulsion
    weakness
    fondness
    fixation
    fetish
    mania
    fascination
    preoccupation
    thing
    yen
    cacoethes
verb
  1. 1.
    feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.
    "he raged at the futility of it all"
    相似詞:
    be angry
    be furious
    be enraged
    be incensed
    be infuriated
    seethe
    be beside oneself
    have a fit
    boil
    be boiling over
    rant
    rave
    rant and rave
    storm
    fume
    spit
    breathe fire
    burn
    be livid
    be wild
    jump up and down
    froth/foam at the mouth
    be steamed up
    do one's head/nut in
    spit feathers
    protest strongly at
    complain vociferously about
    disagree violently with
    oppose strongly
    denounce
    fulminate
    inveigh
    rail
    kick
    expostulate
    make a fuss about
    kick up a fuss/stink about
  2. 2.
    INFORMAL
    enjoy oneself at a party or other lively gathering, typically with drinking and music.
    "we're gonna rage through the weekend"

drought 
noun [C or U]
a long period when there is little or no rain:
This year (a) severe drought has ruined the crops.
  • 発音記号[dráut]
[名][C][U]
1 (特に長期の)日照り, 干ばつ;渇水
drought damage
干害.
2 (物の長期の)払底, 欠乏, 枯渇
drought of funds
資金不足.
3 ((方言))のどのかわき.
4 (一般に)乾燥. (また((米))dróuth)
[古英語drgian(乾燥する)+-TH1=乾燥すること. △DRY

fallow 
adjective
1 describes land that is not planted with crops, in order to improve the quality of the soil:
Farmers are eligible for government support if they let a certain amount of land lie fallow.

2 describes a period of time in which very little happens:
August is a fallow period in British politics. ━━ a., n., vt. 休作の; 休閑(地); 休閑地にする; 活用されていない.
lie fallow (畑地が)休めてある; (才能などが)眠っている.




soil (EARTH) Show phonetics
noun
1 [C or U] the material on the surface of the ground in which plants grow; earth:
light/heavy/fertile soil
sandy or chalky soils

2 [U] LITERARY a country:
It was the first time we had set foot on foreign/French/American soil (= gone to a foreign country/France/America).

3 LITERARY the soil the activity of farming:
The government is trying to encourage a return to the soil.

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