SVB Financial , the bankrupt parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, has lost access to its financial records after the bank was placed into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), according to court documents filed in Manhattan on Sunday.
He was a historian, wrote children's books, made TV documentaries and, of course, he was a Python. Wonderful one-off Terry Jones has died, aged 77.
https://bbc.in/36n3LG9
Employees of British retailer Greggs face tax rates of up to 75% on their one-off bonus. A banker receiving an extra £1m would be taxed at 47%
Britain's baffling tax-and-benefits system
ECONOMIST.COM
Why bakers are taxed more than bankers
Britain's baffling tax-and-benefits system
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He was a historian, wrote children's books, made TV documentaries and, of course, he was a Python. Wonderful one-off Terry Jones has died, aged 77.
https://bbc.in/36n3LG9
Employees of British retailer Greggs face tax rates of up to 75% on their one-off bonus. A banker receiving an extra £1m would be taxed at 47%
Britain's baffling tax-and-benefits system
ECONOMIST.COM
Why bakers are taxed more than bankers
Britain's baffling tax-and-benefits system
Both leaders have promised to make their countries great again, and they have a way of alighting on the same points of reference. ..
a way of alighting on the same point of reference
The
rainbow in central Warsaw, a pretty 25-metre wide art installation made
from 23,000 artificial flowers, was seen by many in the Polish capital
as a symbol of gay rights and tolerance. It was set alight by rioters
during a march of the far right on Polish Independence Day on November
11th http://econ.st/18LJyoP
Google is preparing to launch its largest-ever assault on the roughly $20 billion market for local business advertising.
While crowdfunding was once thought to just attract one-off projects for artists, recently founded sites like Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and Rockethub let founders test drive a part of their business model or create a prototype for a new product
David Bailey has the ultimate swinging sixties story. A working-class lad from London’s East End picks up a camera, with no formal training, and sets the fashion world alight by the age of 24. Along the way, he enjoys the carnal pleasures his new-found status (and proximity to supermodels) allows him, while making friends with celebrities such as Mick Jagger and the Kray twins.
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
There is an apparent surge of children with autism within communities of Somali immigrants in the U.S.
Quote:
"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." — Chinese Proverb
Elizabeth Peyton and her bohemian flock of friends, artists, rock stars and other renowned personages living and dead have alighted at the New Museum.
Ms. Peyton’s prominence is either a fluke or a further sign of the ascendancy of the feminine. Her art seems to belong to a strand of painting that has historically been dismissed or marginalized, and for which respect tends to come late, if at all. You could call it girly art. It includes the small still lifes of late Manet and the long careers of Giorgio Morandi and William Nicholson; the work of Marie Laurencin and Florine Stettheimer, who, like Ms. Peyton, chronicled their artistic circles; and the suggestive abstractions of O’Keeffe. The painting of O’Keeffe that concludes the show, based on a famous photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, is one of the weaker and larger works here. But that doesn’t stop this exhibition, which wears it heart on its sleeve and sheaths its ambition in a velvet glove, from striking a blow for the girl in all of us.
ENGLISH hearts, you would think, are swelling with pride. In Moscow on May 21st for the first time two English teams faced each other in the final of the Champions League, a football competition that pits 32 of the best teams across Europe against each other. Manchester United prevailed over Chelsea, as the rest of the continent looked on.
This was no one-off fluke but the latest indicator of the growing dominance of England's Premier League, once a poor cousin of Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A and Germany's Bundesliga. Each of its big four clubs—Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United—has reached at least one Champions League final in the past four years.
By ROBERT PEAR
To address fears that a public program would drive private insurers from the market, Senator Charles E. Schumer proposed that any program must comply with the rules that apply to private insurance.
The Washington Post leads local, but off-leads with a report noting that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr has rejected the idea of trying to stabilize Freddie and Fannie with a huge one-off injection of cash, and will instead make quarterly investments in a bid to provide security while minimizing the cost toA taxpayers.The Los Angeles Times casts Paulson's strategy as an attempt to find a middle ground between Republican free-marketeers who believe the companies should be allowed to go into receivership, and congressional Democrats who believe that government intervention is necessary to save the companies and put the American economy back on an even keel.
EU, OPEC Leaders Debate on High Oil Prices
Oil exporting and oil consuming countries try to find a middle ground on
how to deal with rising oil prices.
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middle ground （絵画の）中景; 中道(ちゅうどう)（の立場）.
n.
- See middle distance (sense 1).
- A point of view midway between extremes: “the middle ground between news and amusement” (Roderick Anscombe).
a position between two opposite opinions in an argument, or between two descriptions:
The UN peace envoy has failed to find any middle ground between the government and the opposition parties.
He can be magical, he can be comical, but only rarely does he occupy the middle ground.
receiver
noun [C] (UK ALSO official receiver)
a person who officially deals with the business matters of companies who cannot pay their debts:
The company went bankrupt and was put into the hands of the receivers.
See also receiver at receive (GET).
receivership
noun [U]
when a company is controlled by the receiver because it has no money:
Since January over a hundred companies have been forced into receivership.
re・ceiv・er━━ n. 受取人; 【法】（時にR-） 管財人 （official receiver）; 収入役; 受け器; 受話器; 受信［受像］機; 【コンピュータ】受信回路; （盗品の）故買者; 【球技】レシーブする人. one-off
noun [S] UK
something that happens or is made or done only once:
Will you be doing more talks in the future or was that just a one-off?
one-off UK
adjective (US one-shot)
happening only once:
They gave him a one-off payment to compensate for the extra hours that he had to work.
noun [S] UK
something that happens or is made or done only once:
Will you be doing more talks in the future or was that just a one-off?
one-off UK
adjective (US one-shot)
happening only once:
They gave him a one-off payment to compensate for the extra hours that he had to work.fluke
noun [C usually singular] INFORMAL
something good that has happened that is the result of chance instead of skill or planning:
The first goal was just a fluke.
Definition of one-shot
1:that is complete or effective through being done or used or applied only once
- there is no easy one-shot answer to the problem
2:that is not followed by something else of the same kind
- a one-shot tax cut
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dismount
v., -mount·ed, -mount·ing, -mounts. v.intr.
- To get off or down, as from a horse.
- To get out of a vehicle.
- To remove from a support, setting, or mounting.
- To unseat or throw off, as from a horse.
- To disassemble (a mechanism, for example).
- The act or manner of dismounting, especially from a horse.
- Sports. A move in gymnastics whereby the gymnast gets off an apparatus or completes a floor exercise, typically landing on both feet.
[Probably alteration of obsolete French desmonter, to unseat : des-, dis- + monter, to mount; see mount1.]
dismountable dis·mount'a·ble adj.━ n. v. 馬から降りる［降ろす，落す］; （台などから）取りはずす; 分解する.
fluke3 (flūk)
n.
- A stroke of good luck.
- A chance occurrence; an accident.
- Games. An accidentally good or successful stroke in billiards or pool.
[Origin unknown.]
Thesaurus: fluke
noun- An unexpected random event: accident, chance, fortuity, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard. Seecertain/uncertain, surprise/expect.
flukey (flukier, flukiest), fluky
adjective INFORMAL
alight1
(ə-līt')intr.v., a·light·ed or a·lit (ə-lĭt'), a·light·ing, a·lights.
- To come down and settle, as after flight: a sparrow alighting on a branch.
- To get down, as from a vehicle; dismount: The queen alighted from the carriage.
- To come by chance: alight on a happy solution.
[Middle English alighten, from Old English ālīhtan : ā-, intensive pref. + līhtan, to relieve of a burden (from līht, light; see light2).]
alight[a・light2]
- 発音記号[əláit]
[副][形]((叙述))灯火がともされて［た］, 燃えて［た］；（…で）輝いて［た］((with ...))
catch alight
火がつく
火がつく
get ［set］ the wood alight
まきに火をつける
まきに火をつける
All was alight with the morning sun.
朝日に映えてすべてが輝いていた.
朝日に映えてすべてが輝いていた.
alight1
Syllabification: (a·light)
Pronunciation: /əˈlīt/verb
alight2
Syllabification: (a·light)
Pronunciation: /əˈlīt/
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fluke (flook)
noun:
1. The flat, triangular piece at the end of an arm of an anchor.
2. A barb or barbed head on a harpoon, arrow, etc.
3. Either of the two lobes of a whale's tail.
[Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1561.]
4. A chance occurrence, especially a stroke of good luck.
[Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1857.]
5. A flatfish, especially a flounder of the genus Paralichthys.
6. A trematode: a type of flatworm.
[From Old English floc. Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (flat),which is also the source of flake, flaw, placenta, and supple. Earliestdocumented use: Before 700.]
Usage
"Ice sculptors carved a throne resembling the fluke of a whale descending into the water." — Bryan Boyhan; HarborFrost a Success; The Sag Harbor Express (New York); Feb 6, 2011.
"There are very, very sharp indents. They almost look like the fluke of an anchor might have done it." — With Surf and Oil Up, California Closes Beaches; The Washington Post; Feb 11, 1990.
"It wasn't a fluke. We have been working hard on it." — Robert Craddock; Reds Coach Ewen McKenzie; The Courier-Mail (Australia); Feb 2, 2011.
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