abandon
A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked
my professional progress prompted me to
abandon my relatively high profile career
I covered my exit by claiming "
I wanted to spend more time with my family"
battery
If you dropped your mobile phone into a bowl of water,
fished it out within a couple of seconds
and immediately removed the battery,
then you have a reasonable chance of success.
corporation
Like mortgages, corporate bonds are legal arrangements
in which parties-in this case companies, or partnerships,
or limited liability corporations-agree to pay money back.
domain
The existing industry claims that baseball
has always promoted itself by putting box scores
into the public domain, long before anyone imagined that
they were useful beyond reportage.
hierarchy
Scholars fresh from abroad can experience cultural shock
in dealing with the established hierarchy
in the research community,
which is often based on seniority and closely knit networks
Imperative
The conservative answer is that
this crisis makes it imperative to repair leaks
in the pipeline, stop those who are siphoning from it,
and insist that the ultimate destinations
correspond closely to the states' highest
and most defensible priorities
jury
The jury agreed that the nature of the game,
not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete's injury.
copyright
A: I learnt from the paper that Stephen King's copyright
was infringed by someone.
B: Which of his works was infringed?