It is unclear how many of its clients' names UBS will divulge. Federal prosecutors have been examining about 19,000 accounts at the bank, but UBS ultimately may disclose the identities of only a few hundred customers.
But to some, turning over any names at all heralds the end of the secret Swiss bank account, whose traditions date to the Middle Ages, The New York Times's Lynnley Browning writes.
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It appears that Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa fell asleep at today's meeting of the Group of Seven's finance leaders. Granted, the jet lag from ...
nod off phrasal verb INFORMAL
to begin sleeping, especially not intentionally:
After our busy day we both sat and nodded off in front of the TV.
asleep at the SWITCH
Also, asleep at the wheel. Inattentive, not doing one's job, as in At the critical moment the watchman was asleep at the switch and only called the fire department when it was too late. This term came from 19th-century American railroading, when it was the trainman's duty to switch cars from one track to another by means of manually operated levers. Should he fail to do so, trains could collide. It was later transferred to any lack of alertness. The wheel in the variant is a steering wheel; similarly disastrous results are implied.
to dateIt appears that Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa fell asleep at today's meeting of the Group of Seven's finance leaders. Granted, the jet lag from ...
FORMAL
up to the present time:
This novel is his best work to date.
noun [C]
1 a numbered day in a month, often given with a combination of the name of the day, the month and the year:
What's the date (today)?/What date is it?/What's today's date?
Today's date is (Friday) the 24th of June/June the 24th (1994).
What is your date of birth?
The closing date for applications is the end of this month.
We've agreed to meet again at a later date.
I'd like to fix a date for our next meeting.
I've made a date (= agreed a date and time) to see her about the house.
See also out of date and up-to-date.
2 a particular year:
The date on the coin is 1789.
Albert Einstein's dates are 1879 to 1955 (= he was born in 1879 and died in 1955).
3 a month and a year:
The UK expiry/US expiration date of this certificate is August 2005.
4 a performance:
They've just finished an exhausting 75-date European tour.
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verb [T]
1 to say how long something has existed or when it was made:
Archaeologists have been unable to date these fossils.
An antique dealer had dated the vase at (= said that it was made in) 1734.
2 to write the day's date on something you have written or made:
[+ object + noun] Thank you for your letter dated August 30th.
n.d. 表示 no date
dais
noun [C]
a raised surface at one end of a meeting room which someone can stand on when speaking to a group
da・is
━━ n. （広間・食堂などの）高壇; （講堂の）演壇.
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