Financial Times
Piecing together the events in Wuhan shows that for at least three weeks, city authorities were informed the coronavirus was spreading but issued orders to suppress the news. In effect, they engineered a cover-up.
Piecing together the events in Wuhan shows that for at least three weeks, city authorities were informed the coronavirus was spreading but issued orders to suppress the news. In effect, they engineered a cover-up.
Justices Limit a Key Protection of the Voting Rights Act
By ADAM LIPTAK
The decision touched off a sharp debate among Supreme Court justices about protecting minority voting rights.
The Chinese vessels sailed within 25 feet of the American ship, waved flags and ordered the Impeccable to leave, Pentagon officials said. Two of the Chinese ships blocked the Impeccable after it requested safe transit, while Chinese sailors dropped pieces of wood in its path and attempted to hook the cables towing the sonar equipment, the officials said. The Impeccable crew sprayed some of the Chinese sailors with a fire hose. Some of the Chinese sailors stripped to their underwear.
The officials said the Chinese ships appeared to be a naval intelligence vessel, two smaller trawlers, a fisheries patrol boat and an official oceanographic ship.
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On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior. Attempts to cope with the human ...
verbiage
noun [U] FORMAL DISAPPROVING
language which is very complicated and which contains a lot of unnecessary words:
His explanation was wrapped up in so much technical verbiage that I simply couldn't understand it.
massacre,
noun [C] 大屠殺1 an act of killing a lot of people:
He ordered the massacre of 2, 000 women and children.
2 INFORMAL a bad defeat, especially in sport:
The changes to the team come after their 7-2 massacre in the final.
massacre
verb [T]
1 to kill many people in a short period of time:
Hundreds of civilians were massacred in the raid.
2 INFORMAL to defeat an opponent very badly in a competition or election:
England was massacred 5-0 by France in the semi-final.
the control of a city, country, etc. by an army instead of by its usual leaders:
Renegade forces captured the capital and declared/imposed martial law.
cover sth up phrasal verb [M]
to stop people discovering the truth about something bad:
The company tried to cover up its employment of illegal immigrants.
cover-up
noun [C]
an attempt to prevent the public discovering information about a serious crime or mistake:
Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of industrial pollution have been strongly denied by the Environment Minister.
oceanography
noun [U]
the scientific study of the sea
oceanographic
to cause a violent or difficult series of events to suddenly begin:
The plans for a new airport have touched off a storm of protest.
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