Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Relies on a Wobbly Linchpin: Lebanon’s Army
Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Relies on a Wobbly Linchpin: Lebanon’s Army
Chinese Buyers for A.I.G. Plane Leasing Unit Miss Payment
By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
The consortium of Chinese firms that has agreed to buy the American
International Group’s airplane leasing division missed a deposit
payment, threatening to unwind the multibillion-dollar transaction.
By DAN LEVIN
The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichaun
Province reveals how far China's nascent civil society movement has come
since a major quake in 2008.
James Hill for The New York Times
Russia Skips Hybrids for Natural-Gas Cars
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Russia is making a bet that methane-powered cars are an alluring market
for future growth. Above, buses powered by natural gas at a refueling
station near Moscow.
AIG Ex-Derivatives Boss: Losses Would Have Been Smaller Without Bailout
AIG's former head of derivatives-trading Joseph Cassano told the financial crisis commission in prepared testimony that AIG would have realized few losses from derivatives if the trades hadn't been unwound in the bailout.
Toyota, Japan's largest auto maker, dropped 4.4%, its biggest decline in almost four years. Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest auto maker, fell 5.3% and Canon lost 4.9%, near lows for the year. An unwinding of yen carry trades in recent days has pushed the currency sharply higher against the U.S. dollar.
China’s Communist leaders have long tried to balance their desire for a thriving Internet and the economic growth it promotes with their demands for political control. The alarm over Google among Beijing’s younger, better-educated and more Internet savvy citizens — China’s future elite — shows how wobbly that balancing act can be.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the most prominent voices in the Traditionalist camp, but there is also the alliance of Old Guard institutions. For example, a group of Traditionalists met in Virginia last weekend to plot strategy, including Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. According to reports, the attendees were pleased that the election wiped out some of the party’s remaining moderates. “There’s a sense that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are freer of wobbly-kneed Republicans than they were before the election,” the writer R. Emmett Tyrrell told a reporter.
Japan's opposition wobbles on Afghan operation
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - The leader of Japan's opposition Democratic Party said on Wednesday he would end a refueling mission in support of US-led forces in ...
Austen biographer Claire Tomalin argues that Sense and Sensibility has a "wobble in its approach," which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.[1]
wobble (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to (cause something to) shake or move from side to side in a way that shows a lack of balance:
That bookcase wobbles whenever you put anything on it.
Don't wobble the table, please, Dan.
FIGURATIVE The company's shares wobbled with the news of a foreign takeover bid.
wobble Show phonetics
noun [C]
I gave the poles a slight wobble and whole tent collapsed.
FIGURATIVE The closure of the company's German subsidiary caused a sharp wobble in its profits.
wobbly Show phonetics
adjective
likely to wobble:
a wobbly ladder/table
I've been in bed with flu and my legs are still feeling all wobbly.
"Look, I've got a wobbly tooth, " said my little daughter, proudly.
HUMOROUS I'm trying to tone up my wobbly bits (= fat areas of the body) generally.
wobbly Show phonetics
noun UK INFORMAL
throw a wobbly to become extremely angry and upset:
My parents threw a wobbly when they found out I'd had a party while they were away.
wobble (UNCERTAIN) Show phonetics
verb [I] INFORMAL
to be uncertain what to do or to change frequently between two opinions:
The government can't afford to wobble on this issue.
wobble Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
wobbly Show phonetics
adjective INFORMAL
uncertain what to do or changing frequently between two opinions:
Last week I felt sure I was doing the right thing but I've started to feel a bit wobbly about it.
unwinding
1. The closure of an investment position.
2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.
unwind
[動]（-wound）(他)
unwind
1. The closure of an investment position.
2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.
G-8 Ministers Weigh Unwinding Rescue Programs
LECCE, Italy -- World financial leaders are starting to examine how they will unwind their emergency spending packages and bank rescues as signs emerge that the economic crisis may have hit bottom.Toyota, Japan's largest auto maker, dropped 4.4%, its biggest decline in almost four years. Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest auto maker, fell 5.3% and Canon lost 4.9%, near lows for the year. An unwinding of yen carry trades in recent days has pushed the currency sharply higher against the U.S. dollar.
China’s Communist leaders have long tried to balance their desire for a thriving Internet and the economic growth it promotes with their demands for political control. The alarm over Google among Beijing’s younger, better-educated and more Internet savvy citizens — China’s future elite — shows how wobbly that balancing act can be.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the most prominent voices in the Traditionalist camp, but there is also the alliance of Old Guard institutions. For example, a group of Traditionalists met in Virginia last weekend to plot strategy, including Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. According to reports, the attendees were pleased that the election wiped out some of the party’s remaining moderates. “There’s a sense that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are freer of wobbly-kneed Republicans than they were before the election,” the writer R. Emmett Tyrrell told a reporter.
Japan's opposition wobbles on Afghan operation
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - The leader of Japan's opposition Democratic Party said on Wednesday he would end a refueling mission in support of US-led forces in ...
Austen biographer Claire Tomalin argues that Sense and Sensibility has a "wobble in its approach," which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.[1]
wobble (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to (cause something to) shake or move from side to side in a way that shows a lack of balance:
That bookcase wobbles whenever you put anything on it.
Don't wobble the table, please, Dan.
FIGURATIVE The company's shares wobbled with the news of a foreign takeover bid.
wobble Show phonetics
noun [C]
I gave the poles a slight wobble and whole tent collapsed.
FIGURATIVE The closure of the company's German subsidiary caused a sharp wobble in its profits.
wobbly Show phonetics
adjective
likely to wobble:
a wobbly ladder/table
I've been in bed with flu and my legs are still feeling all wobbly.
"Look, I've got a wobbly tooth, " said my little daughter, proudly.
HUMOROUS I'm trying to tone up my wobbly bits (= fat areas of the body) generally.
wobbly Show phonetics
noun UK INFORMAL
throw a wobbly to become extremely angry and upset:
My parents threw a wobbly when they found out I'd had a party while they were away.
wobble (UNCERTAIN) Show phonetics
verb [I] INFORMAL
to be uncertain what to do or to change frequently between two opinions:
The government can't afford to wobble on this issue.
wobble Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
wobbly Show phonetics
adjective INFORMAL
uncertain what to do or changing frequently between two opinions:
Last week I felt sure I was doing the right thing but I've started to feel a bit wobbly about it.
unwinding
1. The closure of an investment position.
2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.
unwind
[動]（-wound）(他)
1 〈巻いたものを〉解く, ほどく；…の緊張をほぐす, くつろがせる(relax).
2 ((文))…を解き放す.
━━(自)〈巻いたものが〉解ける；くつろぐ, 緊張がほぐれる.
ùn・wínd・a・ble
[形]
ùn・wínd・er
unwind
1. The closure of an investment position.
2. The reconciliation of an error previously unseen by a brokerage house.
Investopedia Says:
1. Sometimes referred to as closing out a position. A good example would be unwinding an option position by entering into the opposite transaction.
2. When investment firms accidentally purchase the incorrect stock for a customer, they must reverse the transaction by selling the wrong stock and purchasing the correct one.
Definition of unwind
verb (past and past participle unwound)
Definition of fuel
noun[mass noun]
- short for nuclear fuel.
verb (fuels, fuelling, fuelled; US fuels, fueling, fueled)
[with object]Origin:
Middle English: from Old French fouaille, based on Latin focus 'hearth' (in late Latin 'fire')
Definition of refuel
