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Ukraine braced for rival protests

Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are to hold rival protests in Kiev, amid fears of possible clashes.



Taiwan Voters to Choose Course of Relations With China
Washington Post
13 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's 18 million voters will decide the course of relations with China for the next four years tomorrow as they choose between the incumbent president and an opposition leader critical of his push for closer ties with the mainland. ...


Third candidate throws Taiwan vote wide open
AFP
TAIPEI — A veteran Taiwan politician on Tuesday unveiled his candidacy for January's presidential poll, a move observers said could cost incumbent Ma Ying-jeou his re-election in a close race. James Soong, a former heavyweight in Ma's Kuomintang (KMT) ...

Working paper: Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6298.htmlDownload the PDF. Many companies choose to finance themselves using ad revenues and offer their products or services—from newspapers to software applications, television programs, and online search—free to consumers. Yet the emergence of ad-sponsored entrants in various industries poses significant threats to the incumbents in these markets whose business models are often based on subscriptions or fees charged to their customers. Faced with the threat from ad-sponsored entrants, incumbents must choose strategies to respond. HBS professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and University of Southern California professor Feng Zhu create an analytical framework to establish guidelines for incumbent firms facing these issues. The researchers consider four alternative business models: pure-subscription-based; pure-ad-sponsored; mixed-single-product; and mixed-product-line-extension. Analysis shows that the optimal strategic and tactical choices change dramatically in the presence of an ad-sponsored rival.

Debt crisis is a 'baptism of fire' for the European Union

• Excerpt: 'The Quest'

'The Sibling Effect'

By JEFFREY KLUGER
Reviewed by ALISON GOPNIK and ADAM GOPNIK

A science writer explores sibling rivalry, birth order and the occasional appearance of brotherly and sisterly love.

Edward Miliband and the baptism of fire

Ed Miliband, Labour's newly-crowned leader, will have to manage sibling rivalry and the expectations of the trade unions that propelled him into office(19)

baptism of fire
n.

1. A soldier's first experience of actual combat conditions.
2. A severe ordeal experienced for the first time.

baptism

• 号[bǽptizm]
• 
  

[名]

1 [U][C]洗礼（式）, 浸礼, バプテスマ.

2 [U]入会［入党］式, 命名式.

a baptism of fire

聖霊による聖化；（初陣の兵士が受ける）砲火の洗礼；きびしい試練；殉教.

sibling

• 号[síbliŋ]
• 
  

(sĭb'lĭng)
n.
One of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.

[Middle English, from Old English, from sibb, kinsman. See sib.]

1 ((形式))（男女の別なく）きょうだい.

2 《民族》（同じsibの）氏族員.

incumbent[in・cum・bent]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[inkʌ'mbənt]
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((形式))[形]

1 ((限定))現職の, 在職の

the incumbent senator
現職の上院議員.

2 ((叙述))（人に）義務として課される, （…の）責務である((on, upon ...))

It is incumbent on you to advise him.
彼に忠告するのが君の義務だ.

3 ((文))（…に）寄り掛かる((on ...)).

━━[名]

1 現職者, 在任［在職］者；((米))現職議員.

2 ((英))受禄(ろく)聖職者. ⇒BENEFICE

［ラテン語incumbēns （in-上に＋cubāre座る＋-ENT＝上に座っている）. △PROCUMBENT, RECUMBENT, INCUBATE, SUCCUMB］

in・cum・bent・ly

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rival

Pronunciation: /ˈrʌɪv(ə)l/

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noun

• a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity:he has no serious rival for the job [as modifier]:gun battles between rival gangs
• [with negative] a person or thing that equals another in quality:she has no rivals as a female rock singer

verb (rivals, rivalling, rivalled; US rivals, rivaling, rivaled)

[with object]

• be or seem to be equal or comparable to:the efficiency of the Bavarians rivals that of the Viennese

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin rivalis, originally in the sense 'person using the same stream as another', from rivus 'stream'

Spelling rule

Double the l when adding endings which begin with a vowel to words which end in a vowel plus l (as in travel): (rivals, rivalling, rivalled).