2024年2月9日 星期五

ajar, heightened, come forward, take exception to. a protective force


North Korea Heightens Nuclear Tensions
The country’s leadership strives to gain leverage in its escalating standoff with the United States and its allies.


Economic Signals Heighten Worries of a Double-Dip
The global economy is showing new signs of faltering while policy makers express rising alarm about their inability to agree on how to respond.



Amazon Plans iPad Rival
Amazon.com plans to introduce a tablet computer before October, said people familiar with the matter, in a move that will heighten the online retailer's rivalry with Apple.





Many in the business community are also concerned about increasing cyber security threats. The attacks on the Google network also raise a bigger question: the security of the 'cloud' -- where governments, companies and individuals store an increasing amount of data on Google's and others' remote databases.

Those concerns have been heightened by Google's move to go public with its objections after it investigated the breach of its network. The attack targeted as many as 34 different companies or other entities, according to two people familiar with the investigation, which has been under way for weeks. Most of the other companies haven't come forward.



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ajar 門微開 Year After 9/11, Cyberspace Door Is Still Ajar Despite heightened fears of online security that followed Sept. 11, few have responded with new measures to safeguard their computing systems.




Mr. Mohassess’s target was broader than any single government, although he fled to New York in 1976, after Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who ruled Iran from 1941 to 1979, took exception to his work. His anti-shah cartoons used settings and costumes of the Qajar dynasty of 1794 to 1925 — a misdirection that fooled nobody.


Idioms:

take exception to

Disagree with, object to, as in I take exception to that remark about unfair practices. This idiom, first recorded in 1542, uses exception in the sense of "objection," a meaning obsolete except in a few phrases.

Economic Signals Heighten Worries of a Double-Dip
The global economy is showing new signs of faltering while policy makers express rising alarm about their inability to agree on how to respond.
double dip 經濟二次衰退

heighten
hīt'n) pronunciation

v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens. v.tr.
  1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify.
  2. To make high or higher; raise.
v.intr.
  1. To rise or increase in quantity or degree; intensify.
  2. To become high or higher; rise.
heightener height'en·er n.




come forward



Present oneself, offer one's services, as in The boss asked for more help, but no one was inclined to come forward. [Early 1800s]

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