2024年2月9日 星期五

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Read five takeaways from the special counsel’s report.



As her husband faces heightened questions, Jill Biden has been a protective force.







Deng and Liu lent their support to Mao's vision of heightened  production by mass mobilization that underlay the Great Leap Forward.



What underlay Wall Street's financial crisis was the unhealthy risk-taking fostered by the tradition of the gilded paycheck, a phenomenon that must now be reined in, author and former investment banker William D. Cohan writes in an op-ed in The New York Times. 




16 Tycoons to Give Away Fortunes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is among 16 billionaires joining a group pledging to give the majority of their wealth to charity. Others include AOL's Steve Case, and investor Carl Icahn.


As any veteran of a start-up will tell you, the strains of building a company can be enough to undermine even the strongest partnerships. In the case of Microsoft, set up in 1975, the surprising thing is that the union between the two men lasted as long as it did given the tension that already underlay their friendship. Mr Allen eventually walked out of the company in 1983 (although he kept his stake in the business), leaving Mr Gates in sole charge of Microsoft, which then went on to turn both men into billionaires.


True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering. Using his Microsoft riches, Mr Allen has also accrued some of the typical trappings of billionairedom: professional sports teams, famous friends such as Bono, and a mega-yacht, the Octopus. He has also given away a great deal of money. Mr Allen has clearly done a lot. Perhaps one day he will also find the generosity of spirit to admit that Mr Gates deserves far more credit for making all of this possible than he gets in “Idea Man”.

heighten

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Pronunciation: /ˈhʌɪt(ə)n 
  
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VERB

1Make or become more intense:[WITH OBJECT]: the pleasure was heightened by the sense of guilt that accompanied it(as adjective heightenedthe heightened colour of her face[NO OBJECT]: concern over CFCs has heightened
2[WITH OBJECT] Make (something) higher:the stage will be extended, heightening the grid by 3.4 metres

Definitio

underlay1

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VERB

Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈleɪ 
  
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(past and past participle underlaid) [WITH OBJECT]
Place something under (something else), especially to support or raise it:the green fields are underlaid with limestonethe synth arpeggios start, underlaid by a lovely theme on bass

NOUN

Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəleɪ 
  
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1Something placed under or behind something else, especially material laid under a carpet for protection or support:providing the proper underlay gives the carpet extra lifea polka-dot skirt with net underlay
2Music The manner in which the words are fitted to the notes of a piece of vocal music.

Origin

Old English underlecgan (see under-lay1).
billionaire, ((女性形))-airess[bil・lion・aire, ((女性形))-air・ess] [名]億万長者. ⇒MILLIONAIRE

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