repeal, immunity, eavesdropping, retroactive,prescient

Ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Congress and the military should work with President Obama to repeal a law that bans gay members of the U.S. armed forces from living their lives openly.

The Eavesdropping Continues
Congress needs to repeal and re-examine the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which gives the government too broad of a power to eavesdrop.


No diplomatic immunity for Taiwan official: US
AFP
CHICAGO — A Taiwanese official currently detained in Missouri on charges of mistreating her housekeeper should not be able to receive diplomatic immunity, a US State Department spokesman said Monday. While Taiwanese representatives in the United ...

Some of the nation's large banks, according to economists and other finance experts, are like dead men walking, The New York Times's Steve Lohr reports.
Among those who are taking this sober view is Nouriel Roubini, a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, who has been both pessimistic and prescient about the gathering credit problems.



Google is watching
Boston Globe - United States
That quote from George Orwell's "1984" becomes increasingly prescient in light of developments in eavesdropping, pioneered by Google. ...

新聞
The New York Times leads with the Senate overwhelmingly, and unsurprisingly, approving a bill that expands the government's surveillance powers and effectively grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the National Security Agency's post-Sept. 11 spying efforts. By a 69-28 vote, senators approved "the biggest revamping of federal surveillance law in 30 years." As was widely expected, Sen. Barack Obama, who had earlier spoken up against any immunity provision for the phone companies, voted for the measure.


Bush said he won't sign a new eavesdropping bill if it doesn't grant retroactive immunity to U.S. telecom companies that helped conduct electronic surveillance without court orders.

prescient
adjective FORMAL
knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future:
a prescient warning

prescience
noun [U] FORMAL
the prescience of her remarks

retroactive
adjective (ALSO retrospective) FORMAL
If a law or decision, etc. is retroactive, it has effect from a date before it was approved:
the first British law to have retroactive effect


re·peal (rĭ-pēl')
tr.v., -pealed, -peal·ing, -peals.

1. To revoke or rescind, especially by an official or formal act.
2. Obsolete. To summon back or recall, especially from exile.

n.
The act or process of repealing.

[Middle English repelen, repealen, from Anglo-Norman repeler, alteration of Old French rapeler : re-, re- + apeler, to appeal; see appeal.]

repealable re·peal'a·ble adj.
repealer re·peal'er n.

rètroáctive[rètro・áctive]

[形]((形式))〈法令・昇給などが〉（…まで）さかのぼって効力をもつ, 遡及(そきゅう)する((to ...))

a retroactive clause
遡及条項.

rètro・áctive・ly

[副]

rètro・actívity

[名]

pre・scient

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━━ a. 予知する, 先見の明のある.
pre・science
　━━ n.
pre・scient・ly　━━ ad.

immune
━━ a. 免除された ((from)); 免疫になった ((to, from, against)); 影響されない, 動じない ((to, against)).
immune body　免疫体; 抗体.
immune complex　【医】免疫複合体.
immune response　【免疫】免疫応答.
immune serum　【医】免疫血清.
immune system【医】（the ～） 免疫組織.

im・mu・ni・ty　━━ n. 免疫（性） ((to, from, against)); 免除 ((from)).
immune bath　【米法】訴追免除特権 ((証人の供述を得るために与える、将来の訴追を免責する特権)).




retroactive law [tax]　遡及法［税］.


eavesdrop
verb [I] -pp-
to listen to someone's private conversation without them knowing:
He was eavesdropping on our conversation.

eaves━━ n.pl. 軒(のき), ひさし.
eaves・drop　━━ vi. 立聞きする ((on)).
eaves・dropper　n.
eaves・dropping　n. 立聞き; 【コンピュータ】漏話.