2020-05-19

1. ROA Smart Brief

🧡 Organization aims to harness Guard, Reserve innovation

harness: v. control and make use of (natural resources), especially to produce energy.

extension: control, exploit, utilize, make use of

🧡 Denny's rolls out safety plans

roll out:  review --> 20200513

🧡 Looking out for customers, staff amid cirsis

amid: 介词, surrounded by; in the middle of.

look out for: (look out for someone) to take care of someone and make sure that they are treated well.

extension: take care of

🧡 Taco John's franchisee discusses supply chain

franchisee: an individual or company that holds a franchise for the sale of goods or the operation of a service.

franchise: v. n. 营业权，经销权，/ 给予经销权

2. Casino & Gaming SmartBrief

🧡 Ex-GiG CEO to kick off Asian casino company

kick off: to begin something; to hold a party or ceremony to mark the start of something. 

来自踢足球，开始时kick off the ball. 引申为开始做某事

3. Legal Brief

🧡 SCOTUS: Sudan can face punitive damages in 1998 attack

punitive: inflicting or intended as punishment.

inflict: cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something. /. impose something unwelcome on..

🧡Industry groups can pivot amid challenges

pivot: v. to change your decision, opinions, statements, so they are different to what they were before.

n. the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates. 枢纽

4. Hotel & Lodging SmartBrief

🧡 Soak or swim in 9 jaw-dropping hotel pools

jaw-dropping: adj. amazing 下巴都掉了，很惊讶的拟人用法

🧡USDA continues meal service waivers through summer

waiver: n. an act or instance of waiving a right or claim. 免除，赦免，放弃

waive: v. refrain from insisting on or using (a right or claim).

refrain: v. stop oneself from doing something.

5. SmartBrief on Leadership

🧡 Constraints are a friend to innovation

constraints: limitations or restrictions