Online Class Notes (Nicholas)[R]

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Pronunciation

after

giant / JIE-INT

issued / IH-SH-YOU-DUH

secretary / SEH-KRUH-TARE-REE

existing / IGG-SIST-ING

rural / RUR-RULE

unintended / UN-IN-TEND-ID

lean / LEE-NUH

Sheryl / SHARE-UL

socializing / SOW-SHULL-LIES-ING

startling / START-ULL-LING

feminism / FEM-IN-IS-IM

Vocabulary

urban – cities

rural – outside of the city in the countryside

rural areas / urban areas

suburbs – suburban – just outside the city – 郊区

e.g. Usually rich people live in the suburbs and then they drive in the the city or urban areas.

e.g. The rich people live in a suburban area.

invest – 投资

e.g. If you want to become rich, you should invest your money with a growing company!

Reading

Days after blacklisting Chinese technology company Huawei from buying American-made products, the Trump administration is now easing up.

On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department restored the Shenzhen-based tech giant’s ability to maintain its network, which means the company can buy equipment and complete software updates to support those who use Huawei smartphones, according to a 90-day temporary general license issued by federal officials.

“The Temporary General License grants operators time to make other arrangements and the Department space to determine the appropriate long term measures for Americans and foreign telecommunications providers that currently rely on Huawei equipment for critical services,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “In short, this license will allow operations to continue for existing Huawei mobile phone users and rural broadband networks.”

After the Trump administration last week barred American companies from doing business with Huawei, the world’s second-largest supplier of smartphones, shares of Google and other technology companies dropped on Wall Street.

Huawei officials warned that being placed on the blacklist created a major problem: Google would no longer allow Huawei’s smartphones to use popular smartphone applications, like Gmail and Google Maps.

The unintended consequence of the #MeToo movement — that men are now more fearful of working one-on-one with women — is getting worse. Much worse.

Or at least, that’s the takeaway from a survey released Friday by LeanIn.org, the women’s self-empowerment organization founded by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The survey found that 60 percent of male managers say they are uncomfortable doing common workplace activities with women such as mentoring, socializing or having one-on-one meetings — sharply up from 46 percent last year. Meanwhile, senior-level male managers were nine times more likely to say they hesitated to take work trips with junior women than they were with junior men, a gap that grew from just five times last year.

The rise was startling enough that Sandberg herself is speaking on it, offering brief interviews about the findings at a time when headlines involving her name are far more likely to focus on her handling of the social media company’s massive privacy scandals or its response to Russian influence operations than her perch as the mid-2010s maven of workplace feminism.