initial
Although figures published on December 22nd
showed that the decline in national output was 0.2%,
rather than the initial estimate of 0.4%,
they confirmed that Britain was the only big economy
still stuck in recession.
orient
An Italian company plans to use portions of
the complex software in a video to orient tourists
at the Colosseum, and he hopes that future scholars
may be able to reconstruct buildings like the Pantheon
that the team hasn't modeled in detail.
origin
Fontane was writing at the time of the emergence
of a mass market for fiction, in which the origins
of today's publishing industry can be easily discerned,
most notably in the privileging of profit
over aesthetic concerns.
surge
Extradited prisoners are normally transferred
on ordinary commercial flights, but a surge
in the number being sent from Britain to Poland means
that now a fortnightly "Con Air" service is being laid on
by the Polish authorities.
nurture
Despite having different biological fathers,
your sons have 25% of their genes in common.
Living with you means they also have nurture
and the environment in common. Shared time
and common ground helps primates to bond.
nutrition
"There's almost this threat, like "If you don't
drink chocolate milk, then your children
will not get the nutrition they need!"
says Marlene Schwartz,
deputy director of Yale University's Rudd Center
for Food Policy and Obesity.
nourish
Inflammatory cells sometimes attack these deposits,
causing them to burst. When that happens,
blood clots and other debris float downstream into
the arteries that nourish the heart.
workshop
A: My uncle broke a rib last week
when he moved a big steel bar at his workshop.
B: I'm sorry to hear that.