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Call to Retreat Divides Hong Kong Protesters1

Adrift for Months, Starving Asylum Seekers Threw 98 Bodies Overboard

Thirty-two asylum seekers rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy say they went without food for 21 days, and were forced to throw dozens of dead overboard, after their wooden vessel failed at sea

It will be a crushing economic blow if Toyota, as planned, high-tails it out of Fremont. Like the rest of the nation, California is struggling with the worst employment crisis since the 1930s. The NUMMI plant closure would be the single biggest layoff in the state since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007.

Space Plan From China Broadens Challenge to U.S.

By EDWARD WONG and KENNETH CHANG

A five-year development timeline unveiled Thursday by the Chinese government could establish it as a major rival in space at a moment when the American program is in retreat.

the earth as the lunatic asylum



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"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum." — G.B. Shaw



lu·na·tic (lū'nə-tĭk) 
adj.

1. Suffering from lunacy; insane.
2. Of or for the insane.
3. Wildly or giddily foolish: a lunatic decision.
4. Characterized by lunacy or eccentricity.

[Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Latin lūnāticus, from lūna, moon.]

lunatic lu'na·tic n.

retreat[re・treat]

• 発音記号[ritríːt]

[名]

1 [U][C]（…からの）後退, 撤退, 退却((from ...))；((the 〜))《軍事》退却の合図

be in full retreat
総退却する

sound the retreat
（ドラムなどで）退却の合図をする.

2 [U]隠退, 閑居；（…への）避難((into ...)).

3 避難［隠退］所；（精神障害者などの）収容所(asylum)

a summer retreat
避暑地.

4 [U][C]静修（期間）：宗教的修行や黙想のために閉じこもること.

5 《軍事》
(1) （日没の際の）国旗降下式.
(2) 日没帰営らっぱ［太鼓］.

beat ［make］ a retreat

（特に大急ぎで）退去する, 逃げ出す；企てを放棄する.

make good one's retreat

無事に逃れる.

━━[動](自)

1 （…へ）（特に余儀なく）退く, 引き下がる；（…から）逃げる, 逃げ出す, 引きこもる((to, into, on ...；from ...))

retreat into the room
部屋に逃げ込む

retreat from one's noisy children
やかましい子供たちから逃れる

retreat into oneself
自分の世界に没頭する［殻に閉じこもる］.

2 （…から）退却［撤退, 後退］する((from ...)). ⇒RETIRE(自)5

3 後方に傾斜する, 反る；引っ込む.

━━(他)

1 …を後退させる, 引っ込める, 取り去る.

2 《チェス》〈こまを〉引く, 下げる.

high-tail


IN BRIEF: v. - Retreat at full speed.

self-seeking
(sĕlf'sē'kĭng)
adj.

1. Pursuing only one's own ends or interests.
2. Exhibiting concern only with promoting one's own ends or interests: self-seeking maneuvers.

n.
Determined pursuit of one's own ends or interests.

self-seeker self'-seek'er n.

Concerned only with oneself: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-involved, selfish, self-serving.

egotist

Pronunciation: /ˈɛgətɪst/

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noun

a person who is excessively conceited or absorbed in themselves; self-seeker:he is a self-absorbed egotist