uncommercial, much-vaunted, hols the bag, staid, commercial rooftop agriculture, roofless

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.

A scandal, which involved fiddling of expenses, has been embarrassing Canada's Conservative government for close to a year. Stephen Harper, the prime minister, has a well-earned reputation as a shrewd political strategist. The handling of the imbroglio proves there is an exception to every rule. The affair has exposed fissures in the Conservative party http://econ.st/1ciUaOq







Academic scientists readily acknowledge that they often get things wrong. But they also hold fast to the idea that these errors get corrected over time as other scientists try to take the work further. Evidence that many more dodgy results are published than are subsequently corrected or withdrawn calls that much-vaunted capacity for self-correction into question http://econ.st/15X0Am0

In the ensuing imbroglio, Ms. Weymouth felt that her handpicked editor had left her holding the bag and began doubting his loyalty. The rift never healed. She pushed Mr. Brauchli to cut costs, and he continually asked why the business side was underperforming.  在接下來的紛爭中，韋茅斯感到她親自挑選的主編讓她一個人背黑鍋，並開始質疑他的忠心。這一裂痕再也沒有得到彌合。她要求鮑偉傑削減成本，而鮑偉傑則不斷質問為何經營部門的表現不佳。 Definition of uncommercial in English: ADJECTIVE Not making, intended to make, or allowing a profit:[形]商業に関係のない［従事していない］；商習慣に反する；非営利的な，採算の取れない.they are producing a glossy magazine at a cost that is totally uncommercial hold the bag ((米略式)) (1) 最終的な責任を負う；貧乏くじを引く. ▼leave a person holding the bagの形で用いることが多い. (2) ひとりぼっちで手持ちぶさたになる.  roofless (adjective) Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
Synonyms:	dispossessed
Usage:	How matters were finally settled I do not know, but we found ourselves roofless, shelterless, and without a copper.

Ángel Franco/The New York Times

To Find Fields to Farm, Just Look Up

By LISA W. FODERARO

New York is emerging as a leader in commercial rooftop agriculture, which means less pollution and fewer miles for trucks. Above, a farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

With Olympus Managers Still Entrenched, an Ousted Chief Drops His Sword
New York Times
TOKYO — Michael C. Woodford had been an audacious challenger to the staid ways of corporate Japan: a British chief executive, fired after exposing extensive fraud at Olympus — one of Japan's vaunted blue-chip companies — who took his evidence public ...


Sexy lounges and rooftop bars are helping the city-state shake off its formerly staid image.

Jobs Tries to Calm iPhone Imbroglio

Apple is scaling back how much information its iPhones store about where they have been and said it will stop collecting such data when consumers request it, as the company tries to quell concerns it was tracking iPhone owners.

H.P.’s board rushed out Mr. Hurd’s resignation the next day, on Aug. 6. What has followed is a stream of leaks from both sides resulting in a very public imbroglio. The drama between staid H.P. and equally staid Mr. Hurd continues in a fashion quite unlike executive departures of its kind.

staid
adj.

1. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober. See synonyms at serious.
2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).

[From obsolete staid, past participle of STAY¹ .]

staidly staid'ly adv.
staidness staid'ness n.


im·bro·glio (ĭm-brōl'yō)

n., pl., -glios.

1. 1. A difficult or intricate situation; an entanglement.
   2. A confused or complicated disagreement.
2. A confused heap; a tangle.

[Italian, from Old Italian, from imbrogliare, to tangle, confuse : in-, in (from Latin; see in-²) + brogliare, to mix, stir (probably from Old French brooiller, brouiller; see broil²).]

[名]

1 ややこしい事態, 難局；（個人・国家間の複雑な）誤解, もつれ, 紛糾.

2 乱雑に積み重ねたもの.

3 （劇などの）複雑な筋.

róoftòp[róof・tòp]

• レベル：社会人必須

[名]屋根, 屋上.

shot ［proclaim］ ... from the rooftops

…を世間に吹聴する.

vaunt

Syllabification: (vaunt)

Pronunciation: /vônt, vänt/

verb

[with object] (usually as adjective vaunted)

• boast about or praise (something), especially excessively:the much vaunted information superhighway

noun

archaic

• a boast.

Derivatives

vaunter

noun

vauntingly

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English: the noun a shortening of obsolete avaunt 'boasting, a boast'; the verb (originally in the sense 'use boastful language') from Old French vanter, from late Latin vantare, based on Latin vanus 'vain, empty'