much-anticipated, an ornery transplant, in hindsight

DealBook was on the scene for G.M.'s much-anticipated first-day hearings. The company won approval to draw $15 billion from a $33.3 billion bankruptcy loan.

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Some of the students whose eggs were broken at Shin-Osaka Station had taken masks with them. Junior high school students are old enough to take responsibility for avoiding picking up or passing on an infection on a much-anticipated trip. I hope the masks prove useful when they eventually get to go on their excursion.



Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant

Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month.

Upstairs at Max’s, Ms. Heilmann, a transplant from California, said, she saw the young stars of Minimalism on the rise and admired Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Robert Smithson. She sought to win their attention by hurling outlandish provocations. “I was an ornery girl,” she said. “Of course,” she added, “you’d have a few drinks first.” In hindsight, Ms. Heilmann confesses, “I just wanted to be their equal.”

hindsight 
noun [U]
the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened:
With (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight, I should have taken the job.
In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.

transplant
v., -plant·ed, -plant·ing, -plants. v.tr.

1. To uproot and replant (a growing plant).
2. To transfer from one place or residence to another; resettle or relocate.
3. Medicine. To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body or body part to another.

v.intr.
To be capable of undergoing transplantation.
n. (trăns'plănt')

1. The act or process of transplanting.
2. Something transplanted.
3. Medicine. An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: undergo a heart transplant; surgical transplant of a cornea.

[Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin trānsplantāre : Latin trāns, trans- + Latin plantāre, to plant.]

transplantable trans·plant'a·ble adj.
transplantation trans'plan·ta'tion n.
transplanter trans·plant'er n.

transplant 
verb [I or T; usually + adverb or preposition]
to move something, or to be moved, from one place or person to another:
The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside.
Doctors transplanted a monkey's heart into a two-year old child (= removed the child's faulty heart and put a monkey's heart in its place).
Compare implant (OBJECT).

transplant 
noun
1 [C or U] when something is transplanted, especially an operation in which a new organ is put into someone's body:
a liver/kidney transplant
transplant surgery
He had a heart transplant (= Doctors gave him a different, healthier heart instead of his old one).

2 [C] something, especially a new organ, that has been transplanted:
His body accepted/rejected the transplant.

transplantation 
noun [U]
Transplantation of organs from living donors raises ethical issues.

 or・ner・y

adj., -i·er, -i·est.
Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.

[Alteration of ORDINARY.]

orneriness or'ner·i·ness' n.
━━ a. 〔米話・方〕 意地の悪い, 強情な; 品性の卑しい, 下品な.