flailing, on a roll, jump ship, partly cloudy, wheel, steamroll, bust

More than 30m Brazilians escaped poverty between 2003 and 2014, thanks partly to Bolsa Família. Now people who need the programme can't get benefits

Economic recovery is not yet helping the poor

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Bolsa Família, Brazil’s admired anti-poverty programme, is flailing

Economic recovery is not yet helping the poor

  中國近期「暴力救市」措施成效不大，卻反被質疑是干預市場自由。諾貝爾經濟學獎得主克魯明（Paul Krugman ) 今日在《紐約時報》中撰文，就炮轟中國賭上了自己的信譽，更諷刺道：「從這個過程足以證明，儘管中國在過去25年以來取得了驕人的成績，但其國家領導人根本不知道自己在幹甚麼」。

克魯明認為中國經濟高速增長的時代正在結束。他解釋以往鄉村內就業不足的農民，大量移至沿海城市工作，導致經濟大幅增長。但隨著這類勞動力儲備日益減少，經濟增長必然會放緩。

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Amazon is on a roll.

Amazon Studios to create 12 original films a year

The Seattle-based Amazon Studios will produce and acquire original films for showing in theaters and on its Amazon Prime Instant Video subscription service.

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Urban Dictionary: on a roll

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=on+a+roll

on a roll. in the midst of a series of successes. Man,

 

As Ukrainian President Flailed, Allies Jumped Ship1

 

China Tackles Rumors Fed by Its Flailing on Cash Squeeze 12

 

 

 

Editorial: A Big Storm Requires Big Government

But Mitt Romney wants to give FEMA’s central emergency responsibilities to 50 flailing states.

The Olympics shows what can be done with volunteers—a welcome win for Mr Cameron’s flailing “Big Society” agenda. Yet it also shows the limitations of such schemes. Despite all the free labour, the London games hugely bust their original budget. What works stunningly well for a fortnight is impossible to replicate over a longer period. And, like all those Olympic athletes, the games organisers toiled for seven long years to achieve two glorious weeks in 2012.

Spain Holds a Trump Card in Bank Bailout Negotiations

By NICHOLAS KULISH and RAPHAEL MINDER

The euro zone’s fourth-largest economy is too big to fail and possibly too big to steamroll, changing the balance of power in any deal to rescue Spain’s banks.

Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy

RAY OZZIE, the chief software architect at Microsoft, bristles when asked whether people think that new versions of his company’s flagship software — like Windows and Office — are exciting.
“It’s tremendously exciting,” he exclaims defensively, wheeling back from an office table and allowing his hands to flail. “Are you kidding?”


 Opinion: Leaders grasp problems, flail for answers

Japan's Public Debt Hits 1 Quadrillion Yen as the Nikkei Takes a DiveDailyFinance

Japan's Nikkei stock index walked straight into a steamroller this week, falling a painful 5.9% over the past five days. The Nikkei's performed exceptionally well ...

 steamroll=stéamròller[stéam・ròller]

steamroller

Pronunciation: /ˈstiːmrəʊlə/

Translate steamroller | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• a heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction:after each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it
•  an oppressive and relentless power or force:victims of an ideological steamroller

verb

[with object]

• (of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition:the government’s trying to steamroller a law through
•  force (someone) into doing or accepting something:an attempt to steamroller the country into political reforms

[名]

1 （道路工事用）スチームローラー；((俗に))ローラー付きの動力車両.

2 圧倒的な力, 強引な圧力.

━━[動](他)

1 …をスチームローラーでならす［押しつぶす］.

2 ((略式))…を制圧する；〈反対を〉押し切る, 〈議案などを〉押し通す；…を強制する.

flail

n.

A manual threshing device consisting of a long wooden handle or staff and a shorter, free-swinging stick attached to its end.

v., flailed, flail·ing, flails. v.tr.

1. To beat or strike with or as if with a flail: flailed our horses with the reins.
2. To wave or swing vigorously; thrash: flailed my arms to get their attention.
3. To thresh using a flail.

v.intr.

1. To move vigorously or erratically; thrash about: arms flailing helplessly in the water.
2. To strike or lash out violently: boxers flailing at each other in the ring.
3. To thresh grain.

[Middle English, from Old English flegil and from Old French flaiel, both from Late Latin flagellum, threshing tool, from Latin flagrum, whip.]

flail

noun

• a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.
• a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.
• a machine having an action similar to a flail, used for threshing or slashing: [as modifier]:a flail hedge trimmer

verb

• 1 wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly: [no object]:his arms were flailing helplessly [with object]:he flailed his arms and drove her away
• [no object] flounder; struggle uselessly:I was flailing about in the water he flailed around on the snow

2 [with object] beat; flog:he escorted them, flailing their shoulders with his cane

[名]（穀物を打つ）殻ざお.

━━[動](他)

1 …を殻ざおで打つ, 連打する.

2 〈腕などを〉激しく振り回す((about, around)).

━━(自)激しく［不規則に］揺れる.

jump ship

(of a sailor) leave the ship on which one is serving without having obtained permission to do so: he jumped ship in Cape Town • figurative three producers jumped ship two weeks after the show’s debut

wheel
v., wheeled, wheel·ing, wheels.
v.tr.

1. To roll, move, or transport on wheels or a wheel.
2. To cause to turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
3. To provide with wheels or a wheel.

v.intr.

1. To turn around or as if around a central axis; revolve or rotate.
2. To roll or move on or as if on wheels or a wheel.
3. To fly in a curving or circular course: A flock of gulls wheeled just above the dock.
4. To turn or whirl around in place; pivot: "The boy wheeled and the fried eggs leaped from his tray" (Ivan Gold).
5. To reverse one's opinion or practice: Don't be surprised if the boss wheels about on that idea.

The Olympics shows what can be done with volunteers—a welcome win for Mr Cameron’s flailing “Big Society” agenda. Yet it also shows the limitations of such schemes. Despite all the free labour, the London games hugely bust their original budget. What works stunningly well for a fortnight is impossible to replicate over a longer period. And, like all those Olympic athletes, the games organisers toiled for seven long years to achieve two glorious weeks in 2012.