Close Connections is less than a full-bodied biography; Waldron hazards little analysis or judgment of the facts she is reciting. Nevertheless, her book presents such a thorough catalogue of the facts that it somehow adds up to a full picture of Caroline Gordon, a fiercely assertive distaff member of the tribe of Southern writers known consecutively as the Fugitives, the Agrarians, and, from the 1940s on, the New Critics.
Facebook, Google CEOs weigh in on NSA controversy
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Executives from Facebook and Google late Friday
refuted reports that the companies have provided direct access to their
servers for the National Security Agency and the FBI. Reports surfaced Thursday of a security leak that technology ...
Spanish Mayor’s Millions as Exhibit A on Graft
By SUZANNE DALEY
At a time of painful austerity in Spain, corruption charges against
figures like the former small-town mayor María Victoria Pinilla are
stoking bitter resentment.
Stockholm
deserves its reputation as a safe haven from the crisis—although that
might bring its own problems in the form of a rocketing Swedish krona.
Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion? Facebook has become Exhibit A for the skyrocketing valuations of closely held Web companies. The Journal talked to people from Main Street to Wall Street to weigh in on what Facebook is worth.
Exhibit a
the most important piece of evidence relating to a matter in question. From legal usage, denoting the first exhibit submitted as evidence in a trial.
weigh in
Be weighed; also, be of a particular weight. For example, Because it was such a small plane, the passengers and their luggage had to weigh in before takeoff, or The fish weighed in at 18 pounds. [Late 1800s]
weigh in
2 informal make a forceful contribution to a competition or argument:the dispute turned nastier when Steward weighed in the paper’s editor weighed in with criticism of the president
rocketing
Definition of rocket
noun
verb (rockets, rocketing, rocketed)
Origin:
early 17th century: from French roquette, from Italian rocchetto, diminutive of rocca 'distaff (for spinning)', with reference to its cylindrical shapeskyrocket
[名]
1 ロケット花火, のろし.
2 集団声援.
3 《植物》ヒメハナシノブ.
━━[動](自)(他)((略式))〈物価・名声などが[を]〉急上昇する[させる].exhibit
Pronunciation: /ɪgˈzɪbɪt, ɛg-/
Definition of exhibit
verb
[with object]noun
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense 'submit for consideration', also 'present a document as evidence in court'): from Latin exhibit- 'held out', from the verb exhibere, from ex- 'out' + habere 'hold'distaff
Syllabification: (dis·taff)
Pronunciation: /ˈdistaf/
Definition of distaff
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