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By the time a bottle of wine reaches a dinner table in Colombia, it costs eight times more than in its country of origin

Wine whinge

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The costs of Colombia’s closed economy

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As Hong Kong police warn protesters not to surround government buildings, student leaders are vowing to move inside government buildings if Chief Executive C.Y. Leung does not resign by midnight Thursday local time.http://cnn.it/YUDcEZ


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 Service Brings Scorn to Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Enlistees

By ISABEL KERSHNER

As Israel presses ahead with plans phase out a draft exemption, hard-line elements are fighting back by ostracizing the few thousand Haredi already serving.

Eric Schmidt, Google's outgoing CEO, close to landing a book deal
Los Angeles Times
Google's outgoing chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is courting offers from several New York-based book publishers for a book about Technology and how it's ...


Competition for iTunes? Google Music, Spotify Making Launch Strides
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New reports are suggesting that Google is closing in on a launch date for its much-rumored music service at the same time as Spotify is said to be making ...

surround

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Pronunciation: /səˈraʊnd/

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Be all round (someone or something):the hotel is surrounded by its own gardensfigurative he loves to surround himself with family and friends

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1.1(Of troops, police, etc.) encircle (someone or something) so as to cut off communication orescape:troops surrounded the parliament building

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1.2Be associated with:the killings were surrounded by controversy

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NOUN

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1A thing that forms a border or edging around an object:an oak fireplace surround

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1.1(usually surrounds) The area encirclingsomething; surroundings:the beautiful surrounds of Connemara

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Origin

late Middle English (in the sense 'overflow'): from Old French souronder, from late Latin superundare, fromsuper- 'over' + undare 'to flow' (from unda 'a wave'); later associated with round. Current senses of the noun date from the late 19th century.

land
v.tr.

1. 1. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
   2. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
2. Informal. To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
3. 1. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
   2. Informal. To win; secure: land a big contract.
4. Informal. To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.

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close
v.tr.

1. To move (a door, for example) so that an opening or passage is covered or obstructed; shut.
2. To bar access to: closed the road for repairs.
3. To fill or stop up: closed the cracks with plaster.
4. To stop the operations of permanently or temporarily: closed down the factory.
5. To make unavailable for use: closed the area to development; closed the database to further changes.
6. To bring to an end; terminate: close a letter; close a bank account.
7. To bring together all the elements or parts of: Management closed ranks and ostracized the troublemaker.
8. To join or unite; bring into contact: close a circuit.
9. To draw or bind together the edges of: close a wound.
10. Sports. To modify (one's stance), as in baseball or golf, by turning the body so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact with the ball.
11. To complete the final details or negotiations on: close a deal.
12. Archaic. To enclose on all sides.

close in

1. To seem to be gathering in on all sides: The problems closed in.
2. To advance on a target so as to block escape: The police closed in on the sniper.
3. To surround so as to make unusable: The airport was closed in by fog.

close in

1. Surround, enclose, envelop, as in The fog closed in and we couldn't see two yards in front of us, or She felt the room was closing in. [c. 1400]
2. Also, close in on or upon. Draw in, approach, as in The police closed in on the suspect. [Early 1800s]close in phrasal verb

ostracize

Pronunciation: /ˈästrəˌsīz/

Definition of ostracize

verb

[with object]

• exclude (someone) from a society or group:a group of people who have been ridiculed, ostracized, and persecuted for centuries
• (in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or too powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote.

Origin:

mid 17th century: from Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon 'shell or potsherd' (on which names were written, in voting to banish unpopular citizens)