Englisch --> Deutsch (51-100)

legacy

To do that, he must risk leaving his legacy in the hands of others

tenure

Dispo

to ensue

ensuing

..., E.ON and RWE, ended up with excess capacity in the ensuing downturn—just as lavish subsidies to wind- and solar-power producers were bringing a host of new competitors to the market.

lavish

..., E.ON and RWE, ended up with excess capacity in the ensuing downturn—just as lavish subsidies to wind- and solar-power producers were bringing a host of new competitors to the market.

to decommission sth

decommissioning

After the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan in 2011, the German government decided that all nuclear plants in the country must close by 2022, bringing forward the huge costs of decommissioning them.

pity

to take pity on sb; to have pity on sb

The power generators are now hoping that the government, having done so much to undermine their business, will take pity on them.

to wipe out

..., have argued that such a fund may be preferable to risking the bankruptcy of the power companies, in which case the reserves they have already built up might be wiped out.

windfall

windfall profit

A bigger windfall may be in prospect shortly, when another court rules on their demand for €15 billion in compensation over the government going back on its original decision to extend the lives of their nuclear plants.

vale

In all, the power generators are beginning to see a way out of what RWE’s boss, Peter Terium, has called a “vale of tears”.

strewn

A good idea in theory, but E.ON’s heavy investments in Turkey and Brazil have not produced the expected profits. The path out of the vale of tears appears to be strewn with rocks.

endowment

to endow

Foundations need to be particularly well designed and managed in order to preserve their endowment capital over the long term and to ensure the availability

embattled

to embattle

Embattled E.ON and RWE turn to the government and the courts for help

to reconcile

Palestinians' latest attempt to reconcile their divided territories faces daunting obstacles at home and abroad

to daunt

daunting

Palestinians' latest attempt to reconcile their divided territories faces daunting obstacles at home and abroad

implication

An American fight over expensive new treatments has global implications

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!

ogre

to smother

Where nanosats boldly go, new businesses will follow—unless they are smothered with excessive regulations

degradation

How Brazil became the world leader in reducing environmental degradation

villain

IN THE 1990s, when an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Belgium was felled every year, Brazil was the world’s environmental villain and the Amazonian jungle the image of everything that was going wrong in green places.

encrypted

crypto

[...] the electronic data are transferred physically in fully encrypted form on an electronic storage medium from the external [...]

idiosyncratic

A fascinating peek inside a successful and idiosyncratic private company

to succumb

IS EUROPE succumbing to “Japanification”, whereby poor demography and the legacy of a debt crisis lead to a long period of sluggish growth and low inflation (or even deflation)? Some economists argue that the situation is not that desperate.

sluggish

IS EUROPE succumbing to “Japanification”, whereby poor demography and the legacy of a debt crisis lead to a long period of sluggish growth and low inflation (or even deflation)? Some economists argue that the situation is not that desperate.

to throttle

throttle

To catch a thief, throttle a banker

mire

to mire

Whether they are in it for a quick buck or the long haul, foreign investors are helping Europe’s troubled southern periphery out of the mire—so far

haul (Substantiv)

to haul

Whether they are in it for a quick buck or the long haul, foreign investors are helping Europe’s troubled southern periphery out of the mire—so far

periphery

Whether they are in it for a quick buck or the long haul, foreign investors are helping Europe’s troubled southern periphery out of the mire—so far

to snigger

THE announcement on May 22nd by Istat, Italy’s statistical body, that from October it would include drug trafficking, prostitution, and alcohol-and-tobacco smuggling in its economic-output numbers has generated a stream of sniggering headlines.

illicit

Italy’s inclusion of illicit activities in its figures excites much interest