It would be the largest deal to take a company private — something Musk has said he will do with Twitter — in at least two decades. Follow live updates here. |
What happens next is anyone’s guess: Musk is an erratic poster who often uses his account to take potshots at perceived enemies. One big question: Would Musk reinstate Donald Trump’s account? |
President Biden said that former President Donald Trump shouldn’t have access to intelligence briefings due to his “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”
Researchers have found that some butterfly wings even have a heartbeat
ECONOMIST.COM
Far from being dead tissue, butterfly wings are sophisticated living organs
More than meets the eye
As a teenager in Ireland, Richardson was a Republican sympathiser, attending meetings and adopting Gaelic as her first language. She 'would have joined the IRA in a heartbeat', she once confessed.
700 pages of e-mails showcase an insecure and sometimes erratic ~Maureen McDonnell.
Market Swings Are Becoming New Standard
By LOUISE STORY and GRAHAM BOWLEY
Recent stock fluctuations have caused experts to ask whether there are new forces at work in the market that make trading permanently more erratic.
Cables Praise French Friend With a ‘Mercurial’ Side
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
Leaked cables offer an assessment of President Nicolas Sarkozy as a friend of America and an erratic figure.
'Paradise Lust'
By BROOK WILENSKY-LANFORD
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
A history of the eccentric searchers that have sought the real Garden of Eden, in the Arctic, Chinese Turkestan and rural Ohio.
Hillary Clinton 的書 "Hard Choices" 最近出版了， 此一話題再被討論。她前書 Living History 的幕後陰影作家並不在意，並認為與 Hillary 工作很愉快。
"I hope she runs again, I will vote for her in a heartbeat. "
potshot
/ˈpɒtʃɒt/
noun
- a shot aimed at a person or thing that happens to be within easy reach."a sniper took a potshot at him"
- a criticism, especially a random or unfounded one."the show takes wickedly funny potshots at as many movies as it can muster"
heartbeat
Line breaks: heart|beat
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːtbiːt/
noun
Phrases
a heartbeat (away) from
er·rat·ic (ĭ-răt'ĭk)
adj.
- Having no fixed or regular course; wandering.
- Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity: an erratic heartbeat.
- Deviating from the customary course in conduct or opinion; eccentric: erratic behavior.
[Middle English erratik, from Old French erratique, from Latin errāticus, from errāre, to wander.]
erratically er·rat'i·cal·ly adv.erraticism er·rat'i·cism (-ĭ-sĭz'əm) n.
eccentric
(ĭk-sĕn'trĭk, ĕk-)
adj.
- Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern. See synonyms at strange.
- Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.
- Not situated at or in the geometric center.
- Having the axis located elsewhere than at the geometric center.
- One that deviates markedly from an established norm, especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior.
- Physics. A disk or wheel having its axis of revolution displaced from its center so that it is capable of imparting reciprocating motion.
[Middle English eccentrik, planetary orbit of which the earth is not at the center, from Medieval Latin eccentricus, not having the same center, from Greek ekkentros : ek-, out of; see ecto- + kentron, center (from kentein, to prick).]
eccentrically ec·cen'tri·cal·ly adv.mer·cu·ri·al (mər-kyʊr'ē-əl)
adj.
- often Mercurial
- Roman Mythology. Of or relating to the god Mercury.
- Astronomy. Of or relating to the planet Mercury.
- Having the characteristics of eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury.
- Containing or caused by the action of the element mercury.
- Quick and changeable in temperament; volatile: a mercurial nature.
A pharmacological or chemical preparation containing mercury.
[Middle English, of the planet Mercury, from Latin mercuriālis, of the god or planet Mercury, from Mercurius, Mercury.]
mercurially mer·cu'ri·al·ly adv.
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