Technology and politics
Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?
With Swagger, Afghan Army Takes the Lead
By AZAM AHMED
On a recent mission, a unit of the Afghan National Army gave some
clues to how prepared it was to fight the Taliban after American forces
were gone.
Footprints to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Are Seen in Gait
By PAM BELLUCK
Five studies
presented this month provide striking evidence that when a person's walk
gets slower or becomes more variable or less controlled, his cognitive
function is also suffering.
Certainly the huge, nearly naked wrestlers had little to hide. But even in their diaper-like loincloths, they maintained a dignified swagger. And while the crowd erupted in spontaneous shouts and demonstrations, the competition was carefully choreographed, full of rituals and pageantry. Nobody argued with the referee, not even the loud fan in the back who had brought an ample supply of beer. As for the apparently no-holds-barred wrestling — a flurry of pushing and grappling, like a skirmish between the schoolyard’s two biggest bullies — it was preceded and concluded by courtly bowing.
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BP Loses Trading-Floor Swagger in Energy Markets
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
The future of BP’s trading unit is uncertain as oil spill costs mount and rival firms try to lure away traders.
Open outcry is the name of a method of communication between professionals on a stock exchange or futures exchange which involves shouting and the use of hand signals to transfer information primarily about buy and sell orders.[2] The part of the trading floor where this takes place is called a pit.
swagger
v., -gered, -ger·ing, -gers. v.intr.
- To walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air; strut.
- To brag; boast.
To browbeat or bully (someone).
n.
- A swaggering movement or gait.
- Boastful or conceited expression; braggadocio.
[Probably frequentative of SWAG.]
swaggerer swag'ger·er n.swaggeringly swag'ger·ing·ly adv.
obstinate
- [ɑ'bstənət | ɔ'b-]
[形]
2 〈抵抗などが〉執拗(しつよう)な, がん強な, ねばり強い
3 ((限定))〈病気・習癖などが〉執拗な, 難治の
with an obstinate toss of one's head
かたくなに首をふって.
かたくなに首をふって.
an obstinate headache
gait[gait]
- レベル：社会人必須
- 発音記号[géit]
[名]
2 馬［犬］の足並み(pace).
━━[動](他)〈馬に〉特定の足並みを仕込む.conceited
Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːtɪd/
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