The scrappy Anglo-Dutch company was the product of a merger of Shell Oil with Royal Dutch in 1907. It defied fearsome odds to muscle onto Standard Oil's home turf in America—and topple an empire
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
By NINA BERNSTEIN
The tale of the IV
bag shows how secrecy helps keep health care prices high: at every step
from manufacturer to patient, there are confidential deals that obscure
prices and profits.
In Massachusetts Senate Race, Top Democrat Has Rival
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Marisa DeFranco, a lawyer with a scrappy group of supporters, is close
to getting on the primary ballot against Elizabeth Warren, the
Democratic front-runner.
Regional Dictionary Finally Hits 'Zydeco'
New York Times
Joan Houston Hall, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, still remembers the day back in the late 1990s when she typed “scrid” into Google. The word, meaning scrap or bit, was to be listed in the dictionary as a purely New ...
- アイ‐ブイ‐エッチ【IVH】
- 《intravenous hyperalimentation》中心静脈栄養法。上大静脈から点滴により高カロリー溶液を注入して栄養を摂取する方法。
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Infusion Therapy: A patient receiving medication via intravenous therapy. IV bags on a pole connected to IV lines. Intravenous therapy or IV therapy is the ...irregular , scrap (SMALL PIECE)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announcing major changes to the Pentagon budget that would shift the military's focus away from big, expensive weapons systems so it can dedicate more resources toward fighting irregular or guerilla wars. The budget clocks in at $534 billion, a 4 percent increase from last year, but involves so many cuts to some of the Pentagon's best known weapons programs that a big political fight seems almost inevitable.
George MacDonald Fraser
Jan 10th 2008
From The Economist print edition
George MacDonald Fraser, inventor of Flashman, died on January 2nd, aged 82From The Economist print edition
Rex Features
HARRY FLASHMAN never knew George MacDonald Fraser. That was a pity, because Mr Fraser knew every scrap about Flashman, from the points of his swaggering moustaches to the tips of his gleaming spurs.scraps Show phonetics
plural noun
small bits of food which have not been eaten and which are usually thrown away:
We give all our scraps to our cat.scrap (SMALL PIECE) Show phonetics
noun [C]
a small irregular piece of something or a small amount of information:
Have you got a scrap of paper I could write on?
I've read every scrap of information I can find on the subject.
There's not a scrap of (= no) evidence to suggest that he committed the crime.
irregular
adj.
- Contrary to rule, accepted order, or general practice: irregular hiring practices.
- Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention: an irregular marriage.
- Not straight, uniform, or symmetrical: irregular facial features.
- Of uneven rate, occurrence, or duration: an irregular heartbeat.
- Deviating from a type; atypical.
- Botany. Having differing floral parts, as of a zygomorphic or asymmetrical flower.
- Falling below the manufacturer's standard or usual specifications; imperfect.
- Grammar. Departing from the usual pattern of inflection, derivation, or word formation, as the present forms of the verb be or the plural noun children.
- Not belonging to a permanent, organized military force: irregular troops.
- One, such as an item of merchandise, that is irregular.
- A soldier, such as a guerrilla, who is not a member of a regular military force.
scrid
A tiny portion of food, usually referring to a small slice of pie or cake.
"Would you like the chocolate or the banana cream?"
"Oh, I'll just have a scrid of each."
"Oh, I'll just have a scrid of each."
Gutting sea breams a matter of nerves
bream(brim, brĭm)
n., pl., bream, or breams.
Any of several European freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, especially A. brama, having a flattened body and silvery scales.
A similar fish, especially:
Any one of various saltwater fishes in the family Sparidae, such as the porgy.
Any one of various freshwater sunfishes of the genus Lepomis and related genera, such as the bluegill.
[Middle English breme, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
saltwater
of or found in salt water; living in the sea:saltwater fish
1 塩水［海水］の.
2 海水にすむ, 海産の；海の
saltwater fish
海水魚.
bream2 (brēm)
tr.v. Nautical, breamed, bream·ing, breams.
To clean (a wooden ship's hull) by applying heat to soften the pitch and then scraping.
[From Middle Dutch brem(e), furze, broom.]
1. 欧扁, 太阳鱼, 鲷科的海鱼
2. 清扫
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