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China: The country has ramped up mask production to nearly 12 times its earlier level of 10 million a day. But many suppliers are unreliable, and navigating customs laws and transport during global shutdowns is confusing.

New urgency: As many as 25 percent of people infected with the new coronavirus may not show symptoms, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Some people never get symptoms, others get symptoms later — factors that profoundly complicate efforts to mitigate the virus’s spread.




When coffee was introduced to the Ottoman Empire during the 16th-century, it was an instant hit with the sultan and his courtiers. Little did they know that the black, bitter drink would one day hasten the empire’s demise. From 1843




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How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire
A piping hot history


“Our team has been working at full tilt for weeks, with the focus and urgency this moment calls for.”

In a health care system that is already difficult to navigate, some patients describe Kafkaesque quests for tests.

RUNNING A BUSINESS Start-Up Boards Spar over Cash Plans

Many start-ups are finding themselves locked in boardroom dramas as they navigate the tricky tightrope between how much to cut and how much to grow.

navigate

verb [ I or T ]

UK 

 /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ US 

 /ˈnæv.ə.ɡeɪt/

 

TRANSPORT

to direct the way that a ship, aircraft, etc. will travel, or to find a direction across, along, or over an area of water or land, often by using a map:

Sailors have special equipment to help them navigate.

Even ancient ships were able to navigate large stretches of open water.

Some migrating birds can navigate by the moon (= using the moon as a guide).

There weren't any road signs to help us navigate through the maze of one-way streets.

We had to navigate several flights of stairs to find his office.

 

INTERNET & TELECOMS

to move around a website or computer screen, or between websites or screens:

Their website is fairly plain, but very easy to navigate.

urgency

noun [ U ]

UK 

 /ˈɜː.dʒən.si/ US 

 /ˈɝː.dʒən.si/

urgency noun [U] (IMPORTANCE)

the quality of being very important and needing attention immediately:

It now is a matter of urgency that aid reaches the famine area.

She stressed the urgency of an early solution.

idiom:
piping hot

1. Very hot: piping hot biscuits.