2024年5月7日 星期二

the disparate issues, COME OUT SWINGING/FIGHTING. two roads divergent.

 


“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”


~Rachel Carson, from “Silent Spring”



A Famed Analyst’s Final Forecast Is the Fall of the U.S. Economy

Dick Bove, the ubiquitous banking expert, is going out swinging after more than half a century in the business.


to react to something or begin something in a strong, forceful way: He came out swinging at his critics, accusing them of having their own agenda. The company knew it was going to have to come out fighting.

COME OUT SWINGING/FIGHTING - Cambridge Dictionary


While Senate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday unveiled a $118.3 billion bill that tied $60 billion in security aid for Ukraine to assistance for Israel as well as U.S. border security reforms, Speaker Mike Johnson, who had insisted on linking the disparate issues, has said the bill would be “dead on arrival” in the Republican-controlled House.

disparate
/ˈdɪsp(ə)rət/
adjective
  1. essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.
    "they inhabit disparate worlds of thought"
    Similar:
    contrasting
    different
    differing
    dissimilar
    unlike
    unalike
    poles apart
    varying
    various
    diverse
    diversified
    heterogeneous
    unrelated
    unconnected
    distinct
    separate
    divergent
    divers
    myriad
    contrastive
    Opposite:
    homogeneous
noun
ARCHAIC
  1. things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.


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