front-running, nonunionized; payouts, frontier, fabian, harden, holding votes on whether to unionize

Paul Sancya/Associated Press
Resistance From Union in Ford Vote
By BILL VLASIC and NICK BUNKLEY

Ford’s unionized workers, like the above in Wayne, Mich., haven’t received a raise in years and are upset with the big payouts to the company’s senior management.

By thus setting its sights, Mr. Hosogai’s group is intentionally making a challenge that echoes Japan’s glory days in the 1960s and ’70s, when the nation captured global industry after industry through hard work, sticking together and making a determined effort to overtake the front-running companies in the West. But Mr. Hosogai and his small band of bobsled builders say this is more than an exercise in nostalgia or morale building.通過設立這樣的目標，細貝的團隊刻意製造一個挑戰，要重振上個世紀六七十年代日本的輝煌。那個時期，日本通過努力工作、團結一心，以及超越西方領先企業的決心，佔領了一個又一個的全球行業。不過，細貝及其雪橇製造團隊的成員稱，他們這樣做不僅僅是為懷舊、或振奮士氣。


Unlike Beck, Hayek was a very serious thinker, and it would be too bad if the current association between the two led us to dismiss his thought. Hayek always had problems getting the respect he deserved; even when he was awarded the Nobel in economic science in 1974, the awards committee paired him with the left-leaning economist Gunnar Myrdal. With the passage of time, however, many of the ideas expressed in “The Constitution of Liberty” have become broadly accepted by economists — e.g., that labor unions create a privileged labor sector at the expense of the nonunionized; that rent control reduces the supply of housing; or that agricultural subsidies lower the general welfare and create a bonanza for politicians. His view that ambitious ­government-sponsored programs often produce unintended consequences served as an intellectual underpinning of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of the 1980s and ’90s. Now that the aspirations of that revolution are being revived by Tea Partiers and other conservatives, it is useful to review some of the intellectual foundations on which it rested.





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An Irish National Treasure Gets Set for a Long-Needed Restoration

The majestic Old Library at Trinity College Dublin, where some of Ireland’s most ancient and valuable books are stored, is a popular tourist attraction.

Inside the Battle for Union Representation at Apple Stores

Weary from the pandemic and pressured by inflation, retail employees of the tech giant are holding votes on whether to unionize.

A Cafe Devoted to Remembering Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War Victims

Served along with the lattes are personal stories from the staff, whose relatives died in extrajudicial killings supported by the Philippine president.

front running

音節

frónt rúnning

《証券》株式の先回り売買取引.Front running is the illegal practice of a stockbroker executing orders on a security for its own account while taking advantage of advance knowledge of pending orders from its customers. When orders previously submitted by its customers will predictably affect the price of the security, purchasing first for its own account gives the broker an unfair advantage, since it can expect to close out its position at a profit based on the new price level. The front running broker either buys for his own account (before filling customer buy orders that drive up the price), or sells (where the broker sells for its own account, before filling customer sell orders that drive down the price).
frontier
n.

1. 1. An international border.
   2. The area along an international border.
2. A region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area.
3. An undeveloped area or field for discovery or research: theories on the frontier of astrophysics.

[Middle English frountier, from Old French frontier, from front, forehead, front. See front.]

[名]

1 ((主に英))（…間の/他国との）国境（地方）((between .../with ...))

the Franco-German frontier
仏独国境（地帯）

a fortress on the frontier
国境の要塞(ようさい)

France has frontiers with Germany and Spain.
フランスはドイツやスペインと国境を接している.

2 ((米・カナダ))（開拓地と未開拓地との）境界地方；辺境, フロンティア, （特に）米国西部開拓時代の辺境.

3 ((しばしば〜s))限界, 極限

beyond the frontiers of language
言葉の限界を越えて.

4 ((しばしば〜s))（学問・研究の）未開拓の分野；（ある分野での）知識の最前線, 最先端の業績

the frontiers of medical science
医学の最先端

push back the frontiers
新たな発見をする.

━━[形]((限定))

1 国境（地方）の［にある］

a frontier town
国境の町

frontier disputes
国境紛争.

2 ((米))辺境（地方）の；辺境開拓者の

frontier spirit
（辺境）開拓者精神.




RPT-Opposition to huge India nuclear plant hardens after Japan crisis
Reuters
Long-running opposition to the proposed plant at Jaitapur has hardened amid the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan, with village posters depicting scenes of last month's devastation at the Fukushima plant and warning of what could be in store for this ...


harden(här'dn)

v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens. v.tr.

1. To make hard or harder.
2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship.
3. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: "To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways" (Archibald MacLeish).
4. To make sharp, as in outline.
5. To protect (nuclear weapons) by surrounding with earth or concrete.

v.intr.

1. To become hard or harder.
2. To rise and become stable. Used of prices.
3. To become inured.

SYNONYMS harden, acclimate, acclimatize, season, toughen. These verbs mean to make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: was hardened to frontier life; is acclimated to the tropical heat; was acclimatized by long hours to overwork; became seasoned to life in prison; toughened by experience.

[動](他)

1 〈物を〉堅くする, 固める, 硬化する；((しばしば受身))〈水を〉硬水にする.

2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈人・心を〉非情にする, 頑固にする, かたくなにする, 〈性格・感情などを〉強固にする, ますます強化する；((受身))（…に対して）無感覚になる((to ...))

harden a person's convictions
確信を深める

Constant failure hardened him to criticism.
失敗を繰り返したので彼は批判に動じなくなった.

3 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈体などを〉がんじょうにする, 強健にする, 鍛える

Years of farm work has hardened his body.
何年も農場で仕事をして彼の体はたくましくなった.

4 〈軍事施設を〉核爆撃に備えて補強する；〈ミサイルを〉地下サイロに入れる.

━━(自)

1 〈物が〉堅くなる, 硬化する, 固まる；〈水が〉硬水になる.

2 〈心などが〉無情になる；〈顔つきなどが〉きびしくなる, こわばる.

3 〈人が〉（困難などに）慣れる, 粘り強くなる, 〈事が〉確固たるものとなる, 強固になる.

4 〈市場・物価などが〉落ち着く, 堅調になる, 高くなる, 上がる.


fabian,
(fā'bē-ən)
adj.

1. 1. Of or relating to the caution and avoidance of direct confrontation typical of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus.
   2. Cautious or dilatory, as in taking action.
2. Of, relating to, or being a member of the Fabian Society, which was committed to gradual rather than revolutionary means for spreading socialist principles.

[Latin Fabiānus, after Quintus FABIUS MAXIMUS VERRUCOSUS.]

Fabian Fa'bi·an n.
Fabianism Fa'bi·an·ism n.費邊主義指的是謹慎小心、看時局，邊戰邊走的作法或心態。
Fabianist Fa'bi·an·ist n.

2 費邊（Fabitus Maximus）是古羅馬時代的將軍與政治家，以善用緩慢等待時機的戰術而著稱。