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The Taiwan election ballot count is under way, with the incumbent Tsai Ing-wen well into the lead. Full on-the-ground coverage: http://bit.ly/HKFPTaiwan

BREAKING: #Taiwan election – 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen wins second presidential term, beating Beijing-friendly rival.

Taiwan’s incumbent leader Tsai Ing-wen has won the presidential election, defeating her Beijing-friendly rival Han Kuo-yu by a wide margin. Tsai of the Democratic Progressive Party has polled comfortably ahead of her main contender Han of the Kuomintang Party since voting closed at 4pm on Saturday...

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BREAKING: Taiwan election – Tsai Ing-wen wins second presidential term, beating Beijing-friendly rival | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

2009年3月16日 星期一

incumbent,be incumbent on/upon sb

Nvidia, the PC graphics-chip titan, signed a deal to provide three smartphone makers — which supply handsets to brand-name manufacturers and carriers — with its new Tegra processor.

“The rise of the smartphone and things like graphics and 3D images weren’t important when the incumbents built this business,” said Michael Rayfield, the general manager of Nvidia’s mobile business unit. “This is a once in a lifetime deal where a huge market changes the things that are important to it.”

incumbent (PERSON) Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
officially having the named position:
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.

incumbent Show phonetics
noun [C]
the person who has or had a particular official position:
the first/last/previous incumbent
The present incumbent (of the post) is due to retire next month.

incumbency Show phonetics
noun [C]
the period during which someone held a particular position:
During her incumbency (as commissioner), several changes were introduced.

incumbent (NECESSARY) Show phonetics
adjective FORMAL
be incumbent on/upon sb to be necessary for someone:
She felt it incumbent upon/on her to raise the subject at their meeting.

incumbent [in・cum・bent]

• 発音記号[inkʌ'mbənt]

((形式))[形]

1 ((限定))現職の, 在職の

the incumbent senator
現職の上院議員.

2 ((叙述))（人に）義務として課される, （…の）責務である((on, upon ...))

It is incumbent on you to advise him.
彼に忠告するのが君の義務だ.

3 ((文))（…に）寄り掛かる((on ...)).

━━[名]

1 現職者, 在任［在職］者；((米))現職議員.

2 ((英))受禄(ろく)聖職者. ⇒BENEFICE

［ラテン語incumbēns （in-上に＋cubāre座る＋-ENT＝上に座っている）. △PROCUMBENT, RECUMBENT, INCUBATE, SUCCUMB］

in・cum・bent・ly

[副]
incumbent (ĭn-kŭm'bənt) ━━ a. 義務としてかかる ((on)); 在職中［現職］の.
━━ n. （英国教会の）在職牧師; 在職者 ((特に現職議員)).
 in・cum・ben・cy
　━━ n. 義務, 負担; 在職牧師の地位［任期］.

adj.

1. Imposed as an obligation or duty; obligatory: felt it was incumbent on us all to help.
2. Lying, leaning, or resting on something else: incumbent rock strata.
3. Currently holding a specified office: the incumbent mayor.

n.A person who holds an office or ecclesiastical benefice: The incumbent was reelected to another term.

[Middle English, holder of an office, from Medieval Latin incumbēns, incumbent-, from Latin, present participle of incumbere, to lean upon, apply oneself to : in-, on; see in–² + -cumbere, to recline.]

incumbently in·cum'bent·ly adv.
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Ukraine braced for rival protests

Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are to hold rival protests in Kiev, amid fears of possible clashes.



Taiwan Voters to Choose Course of Relations With China
Washington Post
13 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's 18 million voters will decide the course of relations with China for the next four years tomorrow as they choose between the incumbent president and an opposition leader critical of his push for closer ties with the mainland. ...


Third candidate throws Taiwan vote wide open
AFP
TAIPEI — A veteran Taiwan politician on Tuesday unveiled his candidacy for January's presidential poll, a move observers said could cost incumbent Ma Ying-jeou his re-election in a close race. James Soong, a former heavyweight in Ma's Kuomintang (KMT) ...

Working paper: Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6298.htmlDownload the PDF. Many companies choose to finance themselves using ad revenues and offer their products or services—from newspapers to software applications, television programs, and online search—free to consumers. Yet the emergence of ad-sponsored entrants in various industries poses significant threats to the incumbents in these markets whose business models are often based on subscriptions or fees charged to their customers. Faced with the threat from ad-sponsored entrants, incumbents must choose strategies to respond. HBS professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and University of Southern California professor Feng Zhu create an analytical framework to establish guidelines for incumbent firms facing these issues. The researchers consider four alternative business models: pure-subscription-based; pure-ad-sponsored; mixed-single-product; and mixed-product-line-extension. Analysis shows that the optimal strategic and tactical choices change dramatically in the presence of an ad-sponsored rival.

Debt crisis is a 'baptism of fire' for the European Union

•  Excerpt: 'The Quest'

'The Sibling Effect'

By JEFFREY KLUGER
Reviewed by ALISON GOPNIK and ADAM GOPNIK

A science writer explores sibling rivalry, birth order and the occasional appearance of brotherly and sisterly love.

Edward Miliband and the baptism of fire

Ed Miliband, Labour's newly-crowned leader, will have to manage sibling rivalry and the expectations of the trade unions that propelled him into office(19)

baptism of fire
n.

1. A soldier's first experience of actual combat conditions.
2. A severe ordeal experienced for the first time.

baptism

• 号[bǽptizm]
• 
  

[名]

1 [U][C]洗礼（式）, 浸礼, バプテスマ.

2 [U]入会［入党］式, 命名式.

a baptism of fire

聖霊による聖化；（初陣の兵士が受ける）砲火の洗礼；きびしい試練；殉教.

sibling

• 号[síbliŋ] 

(sĭb'lĭng) 
n.
One of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.

[Middle English, from Old English, from sibb, kinsman. See sib.]

1 ((形式))（男女の別なく）きょうだい.

2 《民族》（同じsibの）氏族員.

rival

Pronunciation: /ˈrʌɪv(ə)l/

Translate rival | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity:he has no serious rival for the job [as modifier]:gun battles between rival gangs
• [with negative] a person or thing that equals another in quality:she has no rivals as a female rock singer

verb (rivals, rivalling, rivalled; US rivals, rivaling, rivaled)

[with object]

• be or seem to be equal or comparable to:the efficiency of the Bavarians rivals that of the Viennese

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin rivalis, originally in the sense 'person using the same stream as another', from rivus 'stream'

Spelling rule

Double the l when adding endings which begin with a vowel to words which end in a vowel plus l (as in travel): (rivals, rivalling, rivalled).