news/notes 2009.02.01

*[top] GOP elects first black party chairman//*quoted from "The Japan Times
2009.02.01"
Republicans vow change after crushing election defeats
The Republican Party chose its first black national chairrman Friday,just shy of
three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first black president.
The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new party," declared the new
chairman, Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland.
*[lieutenant//**quoted from "英辞郎"
【名-2】上官代理、副官、次席、若頭◆【略】lieut ; Lieut. ; Lt.
**GOP
【略】＝Grand Old Party●《米》共和党のニックネーム
*[national] Tokyo logs decline in population
For the first time in nine years, more people moved out of Tokyo in Dcember
than moved in, suggesting that the ailling economy is beginning to have an
affect on population flows, a government report said.
*[ailing【形-2】〔産業・経済が〕不調の、不安定な
【形-3】経営難の