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Enthusiasm for renewable energy swelled after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Progress has been slow

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The reinvention of Japan’s power supply is not making much headway

Forget the Hindenberg. There is a new race to bring back the airship—and transform the world's system of transportation.

A New Generation of Airships Is Born

More than half the world’s population has no access to paved roads, so engineers are using an old technology to bring trucking to the sky.

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But then a second problem arrives: “dwell time” at platforms. Even with a generous provision of doors, it takes longer to load and unload double-deck trains. In Brussels or Paris, the typical “headway” between trains of five or six minutes can tolerate this. But on the  busiest lines to and from London, only three minutes is allowed between trains. Extend the dwell time, and capacity on the railways might actually fall.

• China Makes Headway in Developing Supersonic Submarine: Underwater Travel May be Possible in the Future A supersonic submarine that could cover 9,900 kilometres from Shangai to San Francisco in less than two hours, has been developed by Chinese scientists. A team of experts at the Harbin Institute of Technology's Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Lab have developed a technology that makes a submarine or a torpedo travel at extremely high speeds underwater. 儲存 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES · 41 個分享

'I'm not sure how I will vote. Sometimes I think Mrs Thatcher is a nice kind sort of woman. Then the next day I see her on television and she frightens me rigid. She has got eyes like a psychotic killer, but a voice like a gentle person. It is a bit confusing.'

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IPhone Is High Bar for RIM, Palm

BlackBerry maker RIM and Palm are expected to post quarterly results that will likely show sales gains but little headway against rival Apple's iPhone.

File-Sharing Case to Have Broad Impact

A coming court ruling over the sharing of music files could set the bar higher for record labels to prove copyrights were violated.

bar

A standard, expectation, or degree of requirement: a leader whose example set a high bar for others.c.f.

The high bar, also known as the horizontal bar, is an apparatus used in Artistic Gymnastics. It consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a system of cables and stiff vertical supports. It is only used by male gymnasts, who typically wear grips while performing on the bar.

じゃま　邪魔

《障害》(a) hindrance; an obstruction; an obstacle; an impediment; 《干渉》(a) disturbance; (an) interference.
• • ・〜する　disturb; hinder; interfere; obstruct.
  • ・〜になる　stand [get] in one's way.
  • ・お〜いたしました　Excuse me for disturbing [interrupting] you.
  • 邪魔者　an obstacle; a nuisance; a burden.
  
  
  
  

  set in one's way

  〈特に老人が〉自分のやり方に固執して.

   Be inflexible, fixed in one's habits, as in She's too set in her ways to go out and buy a dog. This idiom uses set in the sense of "in a rigid position," a usage dating from about 1300.
  

  
  

in one's way

1. Also, in one's own way. According to one's personal manner. For example, She's brusque but kind in her own way, or Both of them are generous in their way. This phrase is often used to limit an expression of praise, as in the examples. [c. 1700]
2. Also, put in one's way; put in the way of. Before one, within reach or experience, as in That venture put an unexpected sum of money in my way, or He promised to put her in the way of new business. [Late 1500s]
3. in someone's way Also, in the way. In a position to obstruct, hinder, or interfere with someone or something. For example, That truck is in our way, or You're standing in the way; please move to one side. [c. 1500]

 RIGID

1

a :  deficient in or devoid of flexibility <rigid price controls& rigid

 bar of metal>

b :  appearing stiff and unyielding rigid with pain>

2

a :  inflexibly set in opinion

b :  strictly observed rigid

 schedule

3

:  firmly inflexible rather than lax or indulgent rigid

disciplinarian>

4

:  precise and accurate in procedure <rigid control of the manufacturing process>

5

of an airship :  having the outer shape maintained by a fixed framework

— rig·id·ly adverb

— rig·id·ness noun

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Examples of RIGID

1. The patient's legs were rigid.
2. He is a rigid disciplinarian.

headway

Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdweɪ /

NOUN

1[MASS NOUN] (usually in phrase make headway)Forward movement or progress, especially when this is slow or difficult:the ship was making very little headway against heavy seasthey appear to be making headway in bringing the rebels under control

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2The average interval between trains or buses on a regular service:a six-minute headway

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