The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Jeff Sessions was clobbered in Alabamas Republican Senate primary by Tommy Tuberville. Mr Sessions, a senator for 20 years until 2017, was an early supporter of Donald Trump, who made him attorne...
The degree of judgment required tends to increase as people take on more responsibility. Those with routine tasks generally have limited scope for judgment. Line supervisors have some discretion. For a chief executive, the proportion of decisions inv...
Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 A question of judgment 判断力问题 A quality that is hard to define but important to possess 一种很难定义但是很重要的品质。 The pandemic has required many people to make difficult judg...
Killing two birds with one stone is a desirable objective, but rarely an achievable one. 一石二鸟是一个令人向往的目标，但很难实现。 However, Dinesh Mohan of Nehru University, in Delhi, 然而，德里尼赫鲁大学的Dinesh Moha...
Despite its winding economic narrative (and piles of manufacturing statistics), Porcelain is rarely a grind. Ms Marchand writes wittily about subjects from bourgeois views on tableware to Weimar advertising, veering away from tea sets and vases when...
Books arts 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Craft and commerce 手工业和商业 Shifting plates 不断变化的盘子 Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe. 瓷器：欧洲中心的历史 By Suzanne Marchand. 作者：苏珊娜马钱德。 I...
This stockpile comes on top of the $20bn the lenders set aside in the first quarter. 这些银行在第一季度拨备了200亿美元。 The way to think about these provisions, said Jennifer Piepszak, JPMorgan's chief financial officer, is that it i...
Given the rise in cases, however, it seems unlikely that the death rate will remain stagnant for much longer. Deaths for patients infected weeks ago will probably start to pile up. Some morgues in Arizona and Texas are running out of capacity and are...
Ennio Morricone, composer, died on July 6th, aged 91 作曲家埃尼奥莫里康内于7月6日去世，享年91岁。 The theme may have been written well over half a century ago, but in less than three minutes you hear everything that came to matter...
The first act of the impact of the coronavirus on America's financial markets and banking system was characterised by panic. 冠状病毒对美国金融市场和银行体系影响的第一幕是恐慌。 As firms scrambled to amass the cash they need...
Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, began reopening his state in early May, when there were around 400 new cases being detected a day. He began backtracking two months later, after caseloads had swollen tenfold, to around 4,000 a day, and...
United States 美国版块 The virus 病毒 Here it goes again 卷土重来 America is in the midst of an extraordinary surge of covid-19 美国正处于新冠肺炎异常激增的时期 On the same weekend that Florida smashed the single-day state r...
The world this week 世界国际要闻 Business 经济 In another dreadful week for workers in the aviation industry, Airbus said it would cut 15,000 jobs, about a tenth of its total, because it does not expect demand for its aircraft to return to pr...
Readers of a certain age are now permitted to roll their eyes. At least twice in the past 50 yearsin the 1970s, after the oil crisis, 某个年龄层的读者会表示不相信。在过去50年里在20世纪70年代，石油危机之后 and in the 19...
In fact, the two-year average was expressly designed to account for low-emission years a lesson learned from an early attempt to set the baseline in 2010, which was thwarted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, an Icelandic volcano which grounded fli...
