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 KKR: You've Got Shale

Love from private equity can be bittersweet. The flurry of deals and private equity's growing interest in E&P assets mark a shakeout. 

 

 Shale is a potential party companion who can be recruited from the town of Honnleath

embedded, enclosed within a frame narrative as a tale‐within‐the‐tale, like the pilgrims' stories in the Canterbury Tales, which are embedded within Chaucer's account of the journey to Canterbury.

embed

also im·bed (ĭm-)

v., -bed·ded, also -bed·ded, -bed·ding, -bed·ding, -beds, -beds.v.tr.

1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale.
2. To enclose snugly or firmly.
3. To cause to be an integral part of a surrounding whole: "a minor accuracy embedded in a larger untruth" (Ian Jack).
4. To assign (a journalist) to travel with a military unit during an armed conflict.
5. Biology. To enclose (a specimen) in a supporting material before sectioning for microscopic examination.

v.intr.
To become embedded: The harpoon struck but did not embed.

n. (ĕm'bĕd')
One that is embedded, especially a journalist who is assigned to an active military unit.

embedment em·bed'ment n.

 

 

shale[shale]

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[名][U]頁岩(けつがん), 泥板岩.