A push for digital guardrails
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
The weeklong feud between President Trump and a Democratic congresswoman after a soldier's death might never have happened had either side followed convention.
Washington PostA crew member was still telling people not to evacuate the ship almost an hour after the first distress call.
The weeklong feud between President Trump and a Democratic congresswoman after a soldier's death might never have happened had either side followed convention.
Washington PostA crew member was still telling people not to evacuate the ship almost an hour after the first distress call.
A guilt-ridden principal hanged himself not far from a gymnasium where relatives of missing students are staying.
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Sprint Looks to Japan For Help
Japanese
mobile carrier Softbank is in advanced talks to buy roughly 70% of
U.S.-based Sprint, a multibillion-dollar lifeline that could help Sprint
compete with its much bigger and richer rivals.
IEA Defensive As Oil Stays Put
The International Energy Agency says its release of strategic crude reserves is working, despite oil prices rebounding to the level they were before the stockpiles were tapped.
stay put
Remain in a fixed or established position, as in I can't get that trellis to stay put, or I'm coming, just stay put till I get there. [First half of 1800s]
EA Defends Oil Release
The agency says the supply of light, sweet crude has improved markedly following the release of strategic crude reserves, which has reduced the price differential between high-quality oil and heavier, more sour varieties. But Brent oil futures have rebounded to around where they were just before the announcement.
Karadzic has lawyer imposed as war crimes trial postponed
The International Criminal Court has imposed a legal counsel on former
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in its war crimes trial against him.
The move is in response to a boycott of the trial by Karadzic.
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Banco Popolare has offered 179 million euros ($231 million) to take full control of the leasing company Italease.
Johnson & Johnson seems likely to claim that the Merck-Schering Plough deal is a "change of control" under its joint venture with Schering, The Deal Professor says.
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control
verb [T] -ll-
to order, limit, instruct or rule something, or someone's actions or behaviour:
If you can't control your dog, put it on a lead!
You're going to have to learn to control your temper.
The temperature is controlled by a thermostat.
The laws controlling drugs are very strict in this country.
The government is trying to control spending.
control
noun
1 [C or U] when you control something or someone, or the power to do this:
She's got no control over that child - it's terrible.
He wants the government to impose strict controls on dog ownership.
The dictator took control of the country in 1933.
He felt he was losing control of events.
You need to stay in control of your emotions.
The car skidded and went out of control, crashing into an oncoming truck.
There was nothing we could do about it - the situation was out of/beyond/outside our control.
She criticized the police's methods of crowd control.
2 [C] a switch or other device used to operate a machine such as a vehicle:
The main instruments are in the centre of the control panel.
Captain Firth sat at the controls of the aircraft.
3 [C] SPECIALIZED in an experiment, an object or system which is not changed so that you can compare it with similar objects or systems which are intentionally changed
controller Show phonetics
noun [C]
a person who controls something, or someone who is responsible for what a particular organization does:
an air-traffic controller
That was the year he became Controller of Radio 4.
im·pose (ĭm-pōz')
v., -posed, -pos·ing, -pos·es. v.tr.
- To establish or apply as compulsory; levy: impose a tax.
- To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority: impose a peace settlement. See synonyms at dictate.
- To obtrude or force (oneself, for example) on another or others.
- Printing. To arrange (type or plates) on an imposing stone.
- To offer or circulate fraudulently; pass off: imposed a fraud on consumers.
To take unfair advantage: You are always imposing on their generosity.
[Middle English imposen, from Old French imposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin impōnere, to place upon : in-, on; see in-2 + pōnere, to place.]
imposer im·pos'er n.
2 （飛行機などの着陸用）そり.
3 （重い物の下に敷いて転がす）丸太, ころ；荷を支える板［丸太］；スキッド（荷物移動用の車輪のついた台）.
4 ((〜s))《海事》露出ビーム；すべらせ板；防舷(げん)材；（車輪の）輪止め, 滑り止め.
5 ((the 〜s))((略式))破滅［貧困, 堕落］への道.
hit the skids
((俗))落ち目になる, 破滅［堕落］する.
on the skids
((略式))落ち目で；解雇されそうで.
put the skids under ［on］ ...
((略式))(1) 〈人を〉破滅［零落］させる；〈事を〉失敗させる.
(2) 〈人を〉急がせる.
━━[動]（〜・ded, 〜・ding）(他)
1 …を滑り材に載せ（て滑らせ）る.
2 〈車などに〉輪止めをかける；…を横滑りさせる.
━━(自)〈車が〉滑る；横滑りする, スリップする；〈飛行機が〉（旋回のとき）外滑りする.
［古ノルド語skid. △SKI］
skid・dy
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