Ohtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense
The Los Angeles Dodgers are betting $700 million that Shohei Ohtani can deliver championships and help increase revenue. But the economics of sports can be fickle.
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Vladimir Putin has blood on his hands.
“‘Do you think’, said Candide, ‘that men have always massacred each other the way they do now? that they’ve always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands? that they’ve always been feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?’
‘Do you think’, said Martin, ‘that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they find them?’” – Voltaire, ‘Candide’
 Daily CommentBoris Johnson’s Fickle Climate LeadershipIn the face of scientific reality, the host of the U.N. climate-change talks comes up short. By Sam Knight |
Okinawa hosts about half of all 53,000 American troops in Japan; their 32 military sites occupy nearly a fifth of the main island’s tiny area. That outsized burden has long rankled Okinawan residents. A new planned base would ruin a coral-filled bay, and according to ancient Okinawan lore a paradise known as nirai kanai lies out to sea http://econ.st/1zKOuqs
They are not true,” the 23-year-old told Good Morning America.
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ
In states like Oklahoma and Missouri, tornadoes are a seasonal
threat, but government regulation and the expense of shelters rankle.
Ex-US diplomat rankles Taiwan with defense remarks
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The former top American diplomat in Taiwan has said that the island's declining military budgets have left it vulnerable to Chinese attack and made it easier for mainland spies to penetrate its armed forces, remarks that the ...
Finally, a Spray That Gets You Instantly Drunk for Just a Few Seconds
By Samantha Grossman
Sometimes,
getting drunk is just too much work. Thank goodness someone has finally
invented a product that allows you to sit back, spray some liquid into
your mouth and bam! — instant drunken stupor.CW's Rush to Web Rankles Stations
The
CW has moved more aggressively than many other networks to put all its
shows on the Web. It is walking a fine line, trying to get bigger online
while not alienating the TV stations that pay to broadcast the network.
White House Rankles Wall Street With 'Enterprise Value' Tax The tax plan for President Obama's jobs bill has a provision that would tax the profits from the sale of an investment-management partnership at ordinary income rates.
fickle
/ˈfɪk(ə)l/
adjective
- changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections."celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public"
Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision.
The Two Words That Rankle Every Parent: 'I'm Bored'
The authors of the new paper are careful to note that even if drinking is associated with longer life, it can be dangerous: it can impair your memory severely and it can lead to nonlethal falls and other mishaps (like, say, cheating on your spouse in a drunken haze) that can screw up your life. There's also the dependency issue: if you become addicted to alcohol, you may spend a long time trying to get off the bottle.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly#ixzz10FEas4sV
在軟木塞出現數個世紀之后，才有了拔塞器。拔塞器的原始名稱是“bottlescrew”，根據歷史文件記載，最早提及金屬拔塞器的時間大約是在1681年，出現在英國。
haze
n.
- Atmospheric moisture, dust, smoke, and vapor that diminishes visibility.
- A partially opaque covering: Let the polish dry to a haze before buffing it.
- A vague or confused state of mind.
To become misty or hazy; blur.
[Probably back-formation from HAZY.]
North American
snake oilhaze1
Syllabification: (haze)
Pronunciation: /hāz/
noun
Origin:
early 18th century (originally denoting fog or hoarfrost): probably a back-formation from hazyhaze2
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late 17th century (originally Scots and dialect in the sense 'frighten, scold, or beat'): perhaps related to obsolete French haser 'tease or insult'.
n.
- A worthless preparation fraudulently peddled as a cure for many ills.
- Speech or writing intended to deceive; humbug.
ran·kle (răng'kəl)
v., -kled, -kling, -kles. v.intr.
- To cause persistent irritation or resentment.
- To become sore or inflamed; fester.
To embitter; irritate.
━━ v. 悩ます, 苦しめる; （恨みが）心をさいなむ ((with)).
[動](自)
1 〈不愉快な思い・経験などが〉長く心にうずく；心を苦しめる；（人の）心に残る((with ...)).
2 〈傷・はれものなどが〉痛む, うずく.
━━(他)〈人・心を〉苦しめる, いらだたせる, …を激させる, 怒らせる.
[Middle English ranclen, from Old French rancler, alteration of draoncler, from draoncle, festering sore, from Latin dracunculus, diminutive of dracō, dracōn-, serpent. See dragon.]
WORD HISTORY A persistent resentment, a festering sore, and a little snake are all coiled together in the history of the word rankle. "A little snake" is the sense of the Latin word dracunculus to which rankle can be traced, dracunculus being a diminutive of dracō, "snake." The Latin word passed into Old French, as draoncle, having probably already developed the sense "festering sore," because some of these sores resembled little snakes in their shape or bite. The verb draoncler, "to fester," was then formed in Old French. The noun and verb developed alternate forms without the d-, and both were borrowed into Middle English, the noun rancle being recorded in a work written around 1190, the verb ranclen, in a work probably composed about 1300. Both words had literal senses having to do with festering sores. The noun is not recorded after the 16th century, but the verb went on to develop the figurative senses having to do with resentment and bitterness with which we are all too familiar.
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