Paying for Germany's nuclear exit
31.05.2011 - EB
Glossary of difficult words
pocketbook - one's financial resources; (also a woman's handbag);tighter margin - a smaller level of gross profit;
to offset - to counteract something by having an opposing force or effect;
to sink (money into something) - to put (money into something), often without the desired return;
to decommission - to take out of service; (of a nuclear reactor or weapon) to make inoperative, dismantle and decontaminate in order to render safe;
wanton - arbitrary, groundless; deliberate and unprovoked;
big time - on a large scale;
letdown - a setback; a disappointment.