clean-living, ding, bid-rigging, price-fixing, spot-fixing

Out with the red wine and foie gras：half the French cabinet are fighting the fat to please their clean-living boss President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife.
和紅酒、鵝肝醬說拜拜了：法國內閣半數首長正努力對抗肥胖，以迎合他們注重養生的老闆、總統薩科茲和他的超級名模妻子。管淑平

clean-living：形容詞或名詞，健康生活、健康生活的。例句：Clean-living may help slow our body aging, according to a scientific study.（健康生活或許有助於減緩我們的身體老化，根據一份科學研究指出。）


 Spot-fixing controversy highlights corruption in Indian cricket

 Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed. Examples include something as minor as timing a no ball or wide delivery in cricket or timing the first throw-in or corner in association football. Spot-fixing attempts to defraud bookmakers illegally by means of a player agreeing to perform to order by pre-arrangement.^[1] As such spot-fixing differs from match fixing, where a whole match is fixed, or point shaving, a specific type of match fixing in which corrupt players (or officials) attempt to limit the margin of victory of the favoured team. Spot-fixing is more difficult to detect than match fixing or point shaving. Spot-fixing is most associated with the betting markets of the Indian subcontinent where bets can be placed on individual deliveries in a cricket match.^[2] The advent of Twenty20 cricket is said to have made spot-fixing more difficult to detect^[3] as has the growth of Internet gambling and spread betting.

clean-living


IN BRIEF: adj. - Morally pure.

Dinging Japan's Car-Parts Industry

BY JAMES SIMMS

If it sometimes seems car parts are just too expensive, that's because they are.
In recent months, three Japanese car-parts companies have agreed to pay a combined $748 million in fines for bid-rigging and price-fixing in the U.S. The amount paid by the three—Tokyo-listed Furukawa Electric and Denso, as well as Yazaki, a private company—is more than the total of levies collected by the U.S. Justice ...
ding
(dĭng)

v., dinged, ding·ing, dings.
v.intr.

1. To ring; clang.
2. To speak persistently and repetitiously.

v.tr.

1. To cause to clang, as by striking.
2. To instill with constant repetition: dinged advice into my head.

n.
A ringing sound.

[Partly imitative and partly alteration of DIN.]

ding² (dĭng)
n. Informal
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.

tr.v., dinged, ding·ing, dings.

1. To dent or nick.
2. To hit or strike: was dinged on the head by a ball.
3. Slang. To shoot, especially with a gun.

[From ding, to strike, beat on, pound (from Middle English dingen, akin to Old Norse dengja) and from DING¹.]