Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday delayed indefinitely a proposed law to allow people to be extradited to mainland China for trial after widespread anger and large-scale protests in the Asian financial hub.
For Air Traffic Trainees, Games With a Serious Purpose
By MATTHEW L. WALD An influx of new air traffic controllers are learning their trade on electronic tower simulators, which one instructor described as “a big Xbox.”
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President Bush and many conservative economists have opposed such large-scale government intervention in the economy because it supports enterprises that might not survive in a free market. That is the crux of the argument against a government bailout of the auto industry.
influx
noun [U]
the arrival of a large number of people or things at the same time:
Turkey is expecting an influx of several thousand refugees over the next few days.
Japan govt forms new JAL team, mulls bridging loan
Reuters
TOKYO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Japan's government will set up a new team of ministry officials to work on a bailout for troubled Japan Airlines Corp (9205. ...
bridging loanA bridge loan (usually bridging loan in the United Kingdom, also known as a "caveat loan," and also known in some applications as a swing loan) is a type of short-term loan, typically taken out for a period of 2 weeks to 3 years[1] pending the arrangement of larger or longer-term financing.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday delayed indefinitely a proposed law to allow people to be extradited to mainland China for trial after widespread anger and large-scale protests in the Asian financial hub.
Tower Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge - Tower Bridge
(built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in
London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of
London, ...
For Air Traffic Trainees, Games With a Serious Purpose
By MATTHEW L. WALD An influx of new air traffic controllers are learning their trade on electronic tower simulators, which one instructor described as “a big Xbox.”
Page 309
What I say and do are significant expressions from me. and you recognize this,
President Bush and many conservative economists have opposed such large-scale government intervention in the economy because it supports enterprises that might not survive in a free market. That is the crux of the argument against a government bailout of the auto industry.
Guardian - UK
Sir Martin Sorrell: called Google a 'frenemy'. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has described Google as "mortal" ...
這frenemy 是英文friend 和 enemy 組長成的 portmanteau--保表示管關係"亦友亦敵" 詳細請參考
Frenemy can refer to a number of forms of relationship, including:
1) People; 2) Politics and International Relationships; 2) Commercial Relationships between Companies; or
...that can be both partners (customer, vendor, etc.) and competitors at the same time. These type of relationships grow more common in times of great change and make for uneasy relations.
More generally, frenemy also refers to two opposing parties, be it in personal relationships or in large scale interaction between nations, organizations, political parties, etc., that are mutually beneficial, yet are at odds to be mutually destructive.
Frenemy is a similar concept to Promoting adversaries
the crux
noun [S]
the most important or serious part of a matter, problem or argument:
The crux of the country's economic problems is its foreign debt.
The issue of an arms embargo will be at the crux of the negotiations in Geneva.
emir
noun [C]
a ruler of particular Muslim countries in the Middle East:
the Emir of Kuwait
emirate
noun [C]
a country ruled by an emir━━ n. emirの職［管轄権, 管轄領］; 首長国.
Architecture in the Emirates
Philip JodidioConstruction fever in the Gulf
The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an unparalleled architectural boom in recent years. With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughout the area, it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural District project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot.
Sir Martin Sorrell: called Google a 'frenemy'. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell has described Google as "mortal" ...
the crux
emir
Architecture in the Emirates
Philip JodidioConstruction fever in the Gulf
recognize (KNOW), UK USUALLY recognise
verb [T]
to know someone or something because you have seen, heard or experienced them before:
I hadn't seen her for 20 years, but I recognized her immediately.
"Do you recognize this song?"
Doctors are trained to recognize the symptoms of different diseases.
recognizable, UK USUALLY recognisable
adjective
easy to recognize:
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is an instantly recognizable landmark.
recognizably, UK USUALLY
recognisably
adverb
At seven weeks, an embryo is recognizably human.
recognition
noun [U]
When he returned to his home town after the war, he found it had changed out of all/beyond all recognition (= it had changed so much that he no longer recognized it).
influx recognisably
noun [U]
the arrival of a large number of people or things at the same time:
Turkey is expecting an influx of several thousand refugees over the next few days.
bascule[bas・cule]
- 発音記号[bǽskjuːl]
[名]
1 《土木》跳開構造.
2 はね橋.
Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Memo From London
Tradition Upended on the Thames
By JOHN F. BURNS
The annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race is no stranger to protests, but an
Australian who swam between the crews on Saturday, above, set off a
chain of chaotic events.
Japan govt forms new JAL team, mulls bridging loan
Reuters
TOKYO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Japan's government will set up a new team of ministry officials to work on a bailout for troubled Japan Airlines Corp (9205. ...
bridging loanA bridge loan (usually bridging loan in the United Kingdom, also known as a "caveat loan," and also known in some applications as a swing loan) is a type of short-term loan, typically taken out for a period of 2 weeks to 3 years[1] pending the arrangement of larger or longer-term financing.
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