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77 Cards in this Set
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Today there is a new contender: Masayoshi Son. |
A person who tries to win something in a contest ; especially : a person who has a good chance of winning |
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The fund is the result of a peculiar alliance forged in 2016 between Mr Son and Muhammad bin Salman. |
To form or bring into being especially by an expenditure of effort |
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He has notched up some triumphs in his career, including an early bet on Alibaba. |
to achieve or get (something) |
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The money is being shovelled out almost as fast as it was taken in. |
to throw or convey roughly or in a mass as if with a shovel |
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This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster. |
very large in size or amount; seeming to be impressive or intended to be impressive but not really possible or practical |
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Indeed, the Vision Fund could mark the giddy top of the tech boom. |
causing dizziness |
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But even if the fund ends up flopping, it will have several lasting effects on technology investing. |
to fail completely |
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Its money, often handed to entrepreneurs in multiples of the amounts they initially demand and accompanied by the threat that the cash will go to the competition if they balk, gives startups the wherewithal to outgun worse-funded rivals. |
to refuse to do what someone else wants you to do; the money, skill, etc., that is needed to get or do something; to have more military weapons and power than (someone or something) |
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To compete with the Vision Fund’s pot of moolah, and with the forays of other unconventional investors, incumbents are having to bulk up. |
to make a raid or brief invasion; to gather into a mass or aggregate |
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A proper verdict on the Vision Fund will not be possible for years. |
a judgment or opinion about something |
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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as it is known, curtails Iran nuclear programme for a number of years and permanently subjects it to intrusive inspections |
Annoying someone by interfering with their privacy |
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At its heart, Mr Trump’s plan is based on a hunch about sanctions. |
A belief or idea about something (especially a future event) that is not based on facts or evidence |
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Yet Iran’s belligerence is not the outcome of a book-keeping exercise |
An aggressive or truculent attitude, atmosphere, or disposition |
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Notwithstanding last year’s street protests, which called for more spending at home, Iran finances troops, militias and terrorists |
in spite of what has just been said |
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The Iran deal guarded against that, by providing an early warning and the option to reimpose sanctions. |
to establish or create (something unwanted) in a forceful or harmful way |
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Moreover, with sanctions already ratcheted up high, Mr Trump and his successors will have limited diplomatic scope |
to increase or decrease (something) especially by a series of small steps or amounts |
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Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. |
to remove (something) completely |
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ACCORDING to its detractors, and even some of its acolytes, the philosophy of liberalism has run its course. |
to diminish the importance, value, or effectiveness of something — often used with from; someone who follows and admires a leader |
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Such luminaries were unafraid of challenging the status quo. |
a very famous or successful person |
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By contrast, their primary concern is to mount an onslaught against market power. |
to increase in amount; a violent attack |
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That does not just mean the overweening clout of the tech titan or the oil baron. |
too confident or proud; the power to influence or control situations; a man who has a lot of power or influence in a particular industry |
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people would come to see property as rented from society, rather than as conferring exclusive ownership. |
to give (something, such as a degree, award, title, right, etc.) to someone or something |
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the poor would live in fear of the rich stripping them of their assets. |
to remove your clothing |
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Still, the scheme will baffle anyone who sees property rights as the foundation of law |
to confuse (someone) completely |
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The more influence voters exerted over any single issue, the less they would be able to wield elsewhere. |
to use (strength, ability, etc.); to have and use (power, influence, etc.) |
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That would make it harder for hobbyhorses to stand in the way of social progress. |
a subject that someone speaks about or complains about often |
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Yet it will do little to mollify those who say liberal capitalism has neglected human needs |
to make (someone) less angry : to calm (someone) down |
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market principles would sully institutions, such as property rights and elections, that confer dignity on individuals. |
to damage or ruin the good quality of (something); to give (something, such as a degree, award, title, right, etc.) to someone or something; the quality of being worthy of honor or respect |
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A little outlandishness may be necessary |
very strange or unusual : extremely different from what is normal or expected |
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But it is time for Palestinians to take up non-violence |
Fill or occupy time or space |
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Sometimes the poison gets out—when, say, rockets or other attacks provoke a fully fledged war. |
to cause the occurrence of (a feeling or action); |
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In a surreal split-screen moment, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, was exulting over the opening of America’s embassy in Jerusalem |
very strange or unusual; to feel or show great happiness |
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Many countries have denounced Israel |
to publicly state that someone or something is bad or wrong |
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Seven decades after the creation of Israel as a thriving democracy, there is a better way than endless conflict and bloodshed. |
characterized by success or prosperity |
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Any Palestinian, even a farmer, coming within 300 metres of the fence is liable to be shot. |
likely to be affected or harmed by something |
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after a brief civil war, expelled Fatah from the strip in 2007 |
to officially force (someone) to leave a place or organization |
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When violence flares Israel’s image suffers, but not much |
to become suddenly excited, angry, or active |
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they speak vaguely of a long-term “truce |
an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting, arguing, etc., for a certain period of time |
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They found that Israel can be even more ferocious. |
very fierce or violent |
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In short, if Palestinians want Israel to stop throttling them, they must first convince Israelis it is safe to let go. |
to not allow (something) to grow or develop |
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Mr Maduro’s mock election |
not based on real or honest feelings |
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Mr Maduro’s mock election |
not based on real or honest feelings |
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At rallies of loyalists and dragooned state workers held in barricaded streets, Mr Maduro talks of getting 12m votes |
a soldier especially in the past who rode a horse and carried a gun |
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a new “constituent assembly”, whose main purpose is to circumvent the opposition-controlled legislature, had been “manipulated". |
to avoid being stopped by (something, such as a law or rule) |
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Even the election date, set by Mr Maduro, points to its spuriousness: his term ends in January |
based on false ideas or bad reasoning |
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In countries where incumbents could lose, they do not linger in office for nearly eight months. |
to continue to exist as time passes |
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That could open the way to the sort of hybrid government that Mr Falcón envisages. |
to have a mental picture of especially in advance of realization |
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Mr Maduro has surprised people who wrote him off as a bumbling heir to the clever, charismatic Hugo Chávez. |
to speak ineptly in a stuttering and faltering manner a person who has the legal right to receive the property of someone who dies |
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His vivisection of the opposition and ruthless exercise of power have put him in position to win re-election |
minute or pitiless examination or criticism having no pity : cruel or merciless |
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But he cannot defy for ever the laws of economics |
to refuse to obey (something or someone) |
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His victory on May 20th may be not only fake, but fleeting. |
not lasting : lasting for only a short time |
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China punched back and he retreated. |
to move back to get away from danger, attack, etc. |
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Trump administration’s sanctions policy, which this year has roiled business from America to Europe, Russia, China and Iran. |
to cause (someone or something) to become very agitated or disturbed |
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What business leaders see, analysts say, is a punitive approach that is capricious, aggressive and at times ill-prepared. |
not logical or reasonable : based on an idea, desire, etc., that is not possible to predict |
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That was punishment for ZTE’s violation of American sanctions against Iran and North Korea and for its subsequent lies about how it censured the staff involved. |
to officially criticize (someone or something) strongly and publicly |
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American congressmen said this smacked of submission to retaliatory pressure from China. |
to have a trace, vestige, or suggestion to get revenge against someone |
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He says this explains the sluggish pace of European investment in Iran in 2016-18, even though European sanctions had been lifted. |
moving slowly or lazily a single step or the length of a single step |
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On May 16th Total said it would unwind its investment in Iran by November unless American authorities granted it a waiver. |
to relax and stop thinking about work, problems, etc. an official document indicating that someone has given up or waived a right or requirement |
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America’s reliance on sanctions to tackle terrorism, nuclear proliferation, human-rights abuses and corruption has ballooned since Mr Trump took office. |
to increase in number or amount quickly to become bigger quickly |
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To the best of our knowledge, there has never been a treasury secretary so clearly enamoured with the sanctions tool |
to inflame with love — usually used in the passive with of |
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Yet however murky America’s system has become, businesses are in no mood to dismiss it. |
not clearly expressed or understood to cause or allow (someone) to leave |
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Doing business in countries that have been labelled as rogue regimes is not much good for their reputations. |
a man who is dishonest or immoral |
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Scientists deplore the rejection of climate change. |
to hate or dislike (something) very much |
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Amid the tumult there is a striking exception. |
a state of noisy confusion or disorder unusual or extreme in a way that attracts attention |
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Bosses reckon that the value of tax cuts, deregulation and potential trade concessions from China outweighs the hazy costs of weaker institutions and trade wars. |
to believe that (something) is true or possible a right to undertake and profit by a specified activity to be greater than (someone or something) in weight, value, or importance not certain |
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When it comes to gauging the full costs of Mr Trump, America Inc is being short-sighted and sloppy. |
to measure (something) exactly made or done without thinking about what will happen in the future showing a lack of care, attention, or effort |
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Though bosses have tired of this kind of pantomime, particularly after Mr Trump’s equivocations over white-supremacist protests in Virginia last summer, they remain bullish |
to use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone hopeful or confident that something or someone will be successful |
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China capitulated to American demands and imported $200bn more goods a year |
stop fighting an enemy or opponent |
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CEOs’ overall view of the environment is fallible. |
capable of making mistakes or being wrong |
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During the Obama years corporate America was convinced it was under siege |
a serious and lasting attack ofsomething |
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the country’s system of commerce is lurching away from rules, openness and multilateral treaties towards arbitrariness, insularity and transient deals. |
to leave in the lurch separated from other people or cultures not lasting long |
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Because trade is becoming more regulated, a new surveillance bureaucracy is sprouting. |
to appear suddenly and in large numbers |
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A bill in Congress envisages vetting all foreign investment into America |
to view or regard in a certain way to check (something) carefully to make sure it is acceptable |
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As America eschews global co-operation, its firms will also face more duplicative regulation abroad. |
to avoid (something) especially because you do not think it is right, proper, etc. |
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Bosses hope that the belligerence on trade is a ploy borrowed from “The Apprentice”, |
a clever trick or plan that is used to get someone to do something or to gain an advantage over someone |
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American business may find that its fabled flexibility has been compromised |
widely known |
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Most firms pride themselves on being level-headed, but at some point that bleeds into complacency. |
to pay out or give money a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better |
