the ECONOMIST Flashcards

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Chary

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Cautious, guarded He remained chary

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Drawback, or Unexpected problem

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Plough through I had to wade through page sof statistics

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Predominance Success depends on a preponderance of naval poewr nad the ability to sustain and service the defensive force

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A statement or slogan repeated frequently Two big policy mantras that have been put forward by Beijing

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to fall from an upright position Why no one from ripple to Russia has been able to topple the SWIFT monopoly

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to shake up jar as with a bumpy ride or sharp blow Can a smarter grid jolt the economy and circumvent climate change?

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to lift, give support by putting something under it Subsidies propping up selected sectors and companies

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the action of providing/ supplying something for use The provision of a myriad of offerings, new contracts for the provision of services etc. Low levels of social provision

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굴러들어온 복, 횡재 Nicole to share in windfall from Bored Ape Crypto Coin

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Those holding more governance tokens given a greater sway over the project's direction

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(1) Guessing, (2) 수익지향적인 The coins can also become speculative financial assets used to entice new users to a new platform or marketplace The article was dismissed as highly speculative, less scientific

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고생하다 Even as businesses operating in China grapple with new material shortages and shipping bottlenecks

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감옥에 가다

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Agreeing, although you don't want to

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Proclaim, to say something is true That predication sugggests that MS's future looks much like IBM's did at the end of the mainframe era

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to repair, completely change MS has just passed a milestone in its business overhaul for the cloud computing age

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to Jump over something (반등을 이용해) MS has become the biggest seller of cloud services to busines scustomers, vaulting past start-ups such as Salesforce.com and outpacing IBM and Oracle.

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Blunt, expressing strong opinions directly without worrying if other people are offended (노골적으로 거침없이 말하는) She's an outspoken crtic of the present government an outspoken opponent of the leader Reddit is making a tricky pitch. The company is inviting brands to target its highly engaged and loycal communities, even if their edgy discusions are not traditionally the sort that risk-averse companies wnat to be associated with. That has left Reddit, known as abastion of free speech, walking a delicate tightrope between its outspoken audience of 330m MAUs and new advertises that can propel it into profitability. The same conundrum around content moderation still affects listed peers, such as Facebook and Spotify.

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Fierce and violent She's got a ferocious temper Tenants eyeing super- prime homes in London, defined as those costing 5,0000 or more a week to rent, face a combination of ferocious and dwindling supply

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Include as part of a larger group It will group all content on streaming services including Netflix, Amazon, Disney and its own, into one place - reflecting the approach of Apple and Amazon in the TV market - and the set will subsume the set-top box and sound bar, meaning there is less clutter and cabling

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Strenuous efforts are needed to ace in Consultancy

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steer, maneuver

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The role of complexity in obscuring performance If you are a VC or want to become one, it's important to be able to recognize risk and see not only the potential negative fallouts but the rare gems risks often obscures

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Dominate Energy realism versus the enrgy transition narrative which will prevail in 2022 Will digital or in-person shopping prevail? Chile's presidential election: will socialism or free markets prevail?

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To manage or get around Can a smarter grid to jolt the economy and circumvent climtae change? While ripple net wouldn't help Russia circumvent sanctions, the country itself as well as some negihbors are working on potential workarounds

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Many online MBA courses remain as costly as conventional MBAs, and draw in mostly local learners Why NFTs may soon have to compete with CF-generating content hosted on more conventional platforms

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Involve In this regard, two big policy mantras have been put forward by Beijing: common prosperity and dual circulation. each is likely to be further emphasized this year and in several yeras to come. Common prospertiy refers to intent ot raise the living standards of some 600 Chinese have nots. Dual circulation entails a shift toward greater self-reliance primarily by loclizing China's supply chain. Pre-pandemic the world was already spending billions of dollars propping up selected sectors and companies.Subsidies like currency de-valuation and tax breaks, inevitably entail a race to the bottom.

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The US is using trade to reinforce foreign policy goals. The White House is increasingly turning to trade to heighten pressure on other nations The changes to bonuses should reinforce a culture that is based on personal accountability with appropriate incentives

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But even as businesses operating in China grapple with raw materials shortages and shipping bottleneckes, the growth in the local logistics sector, well buttressed by the largest digital shopper population ~

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Persuade, lure The coincs can also become speculative financial assets to entice new users to a new platform or marketplace

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Audit firms dispense a suite of services. The focus is ont just on accounting but the provision of offerings that can furnish clients with a more complete picture. Furnished aprtment

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Abstain from

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The test makers are able to prey upon this expectation by creating wrong answers that paraphrase the last sentence of the stimulus.

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Prediction, the hallmark of natural sciences, appears to have been possible by reducing phenomena to mathematical expressions.

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Power, prestige, esp. in politics and business Over the next quarter-century, the country’s clout could increase spectacularly.

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Treat as insigniicant or peripheral

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Because the data used to make the conclusion is unreliable, the answer undermines the relationship in the argument

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감정을 추스리다

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decide not to marry at the last moment

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The reduction of costs or spending in response to economic difficulty. The number of workers on non-farm payrolls rose by 263,000 in November, fewer than the 284,000 in October but hardly a sign of wide-reaching retrenchment.

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Wanting or devouring great quantities of food, 개걸스러운 On the whole, demand for highly paid white-collar professionals is as voracious as ever.

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Excessively inflated or pretentious. As the rush of layoffs suggests, some of those workers have found themselves in the crosshairs. Still, talk of a white-collar recession seems overblown.

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If you are in someone's crosshairs, they intend to catch, arrest, or stop you, or criticize you. He's in the law's crosshairs now. The CEO has been in the cross hairs of politicians and businesspeople alike for his recent comments on immigration.

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Restrict Barring big changes to immigration or retirement ages, in the coming years firms will have to shift their focus to doing more with less. For the agile project managers and programmers who can help engineer such productivity enhancements, the good times may just be getting started.

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To place something on display, often within a protective case or material; To retain fondly, as of a memory. For example, it has for months been urging Japan, another tech giant, and the Netherlands, home to asml, a crucial supplier of chip-manufacturing technology, to enshrine its tech goals in a trilateral pact. I enshrined my medals in a cabinet in my foyer so that all visitors can see them. While I'm heartbroken that Grandma is gone, at least I've enshrined all of my wonderful memories with her in my heart.

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Cooperate The Asians are somewhat reluctant to play ball. It is not that they fundamentally disagree with America’s analysis of the risks of China’s rising power and capabilities. And none of them wants America to abdicate its role as the guarantor of security in the Indo-Pacific region. But they dislike being seen to be bossed around. And they have much less appetite than America for a Manichean superpower struggle.

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Unwilling, Reluctant She was loth to go Nearly all the countries of the region have deep economic ties with China that they are loth to rupture (=a break friendly relations).

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lean or tip to one side while in motion, as car rounding a curve or a ship listing in a storm Until recently, strategic competition in Asia ran on parallel tracks to the story of Asia’s growing economic integration. Now competition has jumped the tracks and careened into the economic story. For now, Asian officials say, there is no point in challenging the American line. Some Asian firms are even taking measures to go along with it. With the help of subsidies, tsmc, the world’s leading chipmaker, is building a foundry in Arizona, and another in southern Japan. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is building a chip-plant in Texas. This week Mr Biden visited a South Korean semiconductor facility in Michigan. The motorcycle careened around the bend in the road. Not to be confused with: career (verb) – move rapidly, go at full speed: The sports car careered down the highway

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To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep In South Korea, there is resentment over American protectionism benefiting home-grown firms. In theory, foreigners manufacturing in America are eligible for subsidies. But local-content rules are hard to satisfy. South Korean makers of electric vehicles in America transgress them because they use Chinese batteries.

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Abandoned, deserted, or desolate: But the hope of some in the Biden administration for a complete bifurcation in tech trade between Chinese and American spheres may prove to be forlorn. American companies are lobbying hard against it.

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Increase, come forward, to improve one's performance or take on more responsibility, especially at a crucial time. But what if America persists? Andrew Yang, a Taiwanese former deputy defence minister, is indeed convinced it will step up its efforts, because “China is [America’s] number one competitor.” That logic is amplified by Evan Feigenbaum of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank in Washington, dc. America, he says, is trying to elicit from its friends “voluntary compliance. And if it cannot…[it] is going to bring the hammer down.” Yet as America’s competition with China intensifies, can it really afford strained relations with its Asian friends?

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Trap or gain power over (someone) by dishonest or underhand means The spread of Omicron, though, meant that more and more people had become ensnared in the government’s controls.

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Reckoning, score, amount The official tally of cases is falling, but that is probably because people are being tested less often

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Stir up and feed In a country where the government long stoked fear of the virus, this is jarring. (To shake or vibrate from an impact or impacts: ) It is also disingenuous (insincere, calculating). Although Omicron is milder than previous variants, it can still be deadly—especially in a population that has not acquired immunity through infection, as Hong Kong discovered when many elderly died during an outbreak in the spring. This raises the troubling prospect that the party will cover up the true number of covid deaths.

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An unpredictable development or change of circumstances; 변덕

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To charge heavily or excessively

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A system of government, a mode of rule

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to move about wildly or violently; a course of violent, frenzied behavior or action.

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setting, background

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Aggressive

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To reject with disdain or contempt