>>Japan has agreements to buy 120 million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech in the first six months of 2021. It will also buy 120 million from AstraZeneca, which will ship the first 30 million shots by March 2021. ~has a deal for 250 million shots from Novavax and is in talks with ~ Johnson & Johnson.
南部州 >>Nevada will become the fifth most food-insecure state in the country this year. ~ Feeding America says in four states more than 1 in 5 people are expected to be food insecure by year’s end. Those states are Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana.
>>On the old test, applicants could be asked ‘Who does a U.S. senator represent?’ The suggested answer was ‘all people of the state, / only one in three U.S.-born citizens would pass the former naturalization test.
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2000年まで >>“…Unknown to most Americans, every year thousands of ballots were getting thrown out because that punch card system was malfunctioning and also was confusing voters.”
他にも短縮語がそれ自体で意味を持つ法律名がちょくちょくあるけど意識して名付けるのかね >>the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, or CAREN.~sounds like the name “Karen.” / Critics say the law’s name is sexist and unfair.
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