BusinessWeek(U.S. Debt and Financial Crisis) 20081103

BTW
PINK-SLIP SPECIAL
*pink slip停止雇用的通知
*foreclosure 止贖權
債務人將資產抵押給債權人後，若債務人拖欠還款或無力償還，則債權人得向法院申請頒布命令，將債務人贖回抵押物的權利取消，於是抵押資產成為債權人所有·這種賦予債權人的權利稱為延贖權·

• Forget “No Shirt, No shoes, No Service.” At the Fifty/50, a sports bar and restaurant in Chicago’s trendy Wicker Parker, it’s “No Job, No Home, No Problem.

PROFILES IN PILFERING
*rack up 累計

• Risky borrowing and lending aren't the only way companies rack up losses.

*ferret out 查獲;搜出

• More than half of the 959 white-collar crime cases analyzed were discovered by accident, the study says, despite the post-Enron focus on ferreting out such crimes through systematic examination.

perpetrator 做壞事者;犯罪者

• Not surprisingly, the perpetrators are often those with the best access to the corporate lock box: those in accounting (29%) and upper management (18%).

COVER STORY
DANGERROUS FAKES
*espionage 諜報;間諜活動,刺探

• The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure—and even foreign espionage—because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks.

WHAT'S NEXT
Nokia's Bid to Rule The Mobile Web

• The next generation of the Web is going to be all about the small multimedia computer and not the PC.
• The number of people who use their phones to cruise the Web is surging worldwide, with the figure in the U.S. rising 36% over the past year, to 40 million, according to researcher Nielsen.

*euphoria 心情愉快;興奮

• That's easy to forget with all the euphoria surrounding the iPhone.

*jet-setters 富佬;名流人物
*gadget hounds 玩家

• The iPhone may win the hearts and fill the pockets of jet-setters and gadget hounds, but they're a relatively small group.

*poach 侵入他人地界
*turf地盤;勢力範圍

• In addition to Apple, Google (GOOG) is poaching on Nokia's turf.
• Wireless operator T-Mobile launched the first Android-powered phone in the U.S. on Sept. 24. In addition, RIM, after making its BlackBerry the must-have gadget of the business world, is now going after consumers.
• in the developed world, mobile devices will be extensions of—rather than replacements for—PCs.
• In many emerging markets, the situation will be different—mobile phones will be the only way for most people to get on the Internet.

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