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Schools Are Going Online on Fridays. Parents Are Furious.

• Some public schools are going remote or canceling classes for a day a week, sometimes more, because of teacher burnout or staff shortages.
• Families have been left to find childcare, and many are worried that with additional lost days of in-person school, their children will fall further behind.

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Pfizer-BioNTech Says Booster Offers Significant Omicron Protection

The companies said three doses of the vaccine are effective against the variant, but two doses alone “may not be sufficient.” Here’s the latest on Covid.

Britain announced major new restrictions, urging people to work from home and introducing a vaccine passport.

"This company went through a tragic freefall. Was it avoidable? I very much doubt it."


A reader's response to "How a Company Made Employees So Miserable,
They Killed Themselves."


Virgin Orbit has made a Boeing 747 into a flying launch pad. The rocket's engine ignites after five seconds of freefall

But something more sinister may be afoot. JPMorgan, an American investment bank, was the target of an investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service after it suggested that problem loans at South Korea’s Hana Bank may be higher than the bank’s own estimates. Switzerland’s Credit Suisse was denounced by Hyundai Securities, which publicly castigated the firm after it halved its target price for the South Korean broker. One analyst recalls a threatening telephone call from a sushi-restaurant owner after he issued a “sell” recommendation: “I have many sharp knives. Stay away from dark alleys,” the man said.



Brown's Relaunch Targets Economy


British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to emphasize the global causes of the credit crunch in a key economic speech Thursday.




Injections of Hope
A vast human experiment is afoot. And no one is taking good notes.
(By Brian Vastag, The Washington Post)



BP's chief executive said Tuesday that the crash in oil prices might spark deals between the majors and state-owned oil companies.


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majors Sports. The major leagues.

launch pad

noun [ C ]

UK 

 /ˈlɔːntʃ ˌpæd/ US 

 /ˈlɑːntʃ ˌpæd/

(UK also launching pad)

a special area from which spacecraft or missiles are sent into the sky:

The rocket blew up on the launch pad.

figurative Soap operas have long been a launch pad for film actors.

relaunchTo set afloat again; To start an enterprise again.

afoot 
adjective [after verb]
happening or being planned or prepared:
There are plans afoot to launch a new radio station.a・foot

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━━ ad., a. 徒歩で, 歩いて; 進行中で.
set afoot　（計画など）起す.