By way of prebuttal, Mr Trump gave a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire that ended a moment before Mrs Clinton’s, in which he said she was effectively calling Trump supporters racists. But wanting strong borders “doesn’t make you a racist, that makes you smart,” he assured the crowd (which was, truth be told, overwhelmingly white). Warming to his theme, he told his crowd that allowing immigrants to take jobs hurt black as well as white Americans, making it a “civil rights issue”. 

By way of：の手段として・のつもりで
prebuttal：先手を打っておく反論
smart：賢明な
assured：安心させる
truth be told：実を言うと

In theory, the Democratic and Republican nominees thus spent this week having an argument about which policies are best for a multicultural America. Mr Trump has been taking big risks on this front, softening his hardline, if detail-free plans to deport 11m undocumented migrants now in America without papers—an operation that he once said would require the mustering of a federal deportation force. In speeches and interviews Mr Trump has recanted and now says that he might focus deportation efforts on gang leaders and serious criminals, allowing migrants who have avoided trouble with the law a path to earn legal status after paying back taxes. Mr Trump seems unabashed that this new plan amounts to almost exactly the same immigration policy as the one advanced by his former Republican rival for the nomination, Jeb Bush, calculating that his die-hard supporters will be mollified by his continued (nonsensical) promises to build a wall on the Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. 

on this front：この最優先事項で
mustering：助力を求める
recanted：撤回する
paying back：借金を返す
unabashed：物怖じしない
mollified：和らげる
nonsensical：ナンセンスな
die-hard：頑固な・保守主義の

Mr Trump is not really competing for black and Hispanic votes with this new softer tone, for all that he claims that he will win 95% of black votes. Some polls have him on 1% of black votes, and that is a hole from which he cannot dig himself. This latest change of tone is about stemming his sliding poll numbers among voters whose support he cannot afford to lose: white Republicans who support mainstream conservatives like Mr Ryan, but would be appalled to think they were casting a ballot for racism this November. Notably, he is losing college-educated whites at the moment, though that voter block has chosen a Republican in every presidential contest since 1952. 

competing：争う
for all that：とはいうものの・にもかかわらず
stemming：取り除く
appalled：ショックを受けて・ゾッとして

A while ago this reporter wrote a column about a useful distinction made by European politicians, between the “clean right” and the “dirty right”. The clean right can be very conservative indeed, in this schema, but avoids appeals to prejudice and paranoia. The dirty right is quite willing to wade into the fever-swamps of hatred. Mr Trump seems to be trying to escape the dirty right (though hiring Mr Bannon is an odd move in that case). Mrs Clinton is determined to keep that label firmly round his neck, and to woo every unhappy Republican who wants to support the party of Ryan and Dole, not Breitbart and Trump. 

distinction：区別
schema：要旨
wade：首をつっこむ
fever-swamp：熱を持ったぬま地
odd move：奇妙な動き

トランプもクリントンの攻撃を察知して、アクションをしているが、教養レベルの高い白人、黒人、ヒスパニックを味方につけることは難しいだろう。双方の泥仕合いはまだまだ続きそうだが、トランプには分が悪そうだ。身から出た錆だろう。

The world’s most liveable cities
Aug 18th 2016, 16:49 BY THE DATA TEAM

世界で最も住みやすい都市

COMING up with a list of the world’s best cities is a near-impossible task. The bustle and hum of megacities like Sao Paulo or Tokyo might be too much for some people; others might struggle with the pace of life in Cleveland or Frankfurt. A ranking released on August 18th by our corporate cousin, the Economist Intelligence Unit, attempts instead to quantify the world’s most “liveable” cities—that is, which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. The index, measured out of 100, considers 30 factors related to safety, health care, educational resources, infrastructure and the environment to calculate scores for 140 cities. 

bustle：活気
hum：ガヤガヤ
too much for：耐えきれない


火曜日。今日はこれまで。都市の評価だが、戦争しているダマスカス、キエフのようなところは確かに悪化しているが、大きく変化していることろはテヘラン、デュバイ、ハラレ(ハラレは、南部アフリカのジンバブエ共和国の首都で、この国最大の都市である。旧称はソールズベリー。 英国風の街並が並び、標高約1600mの高原の丘にあるため、夏でも平均気温は20度少し程度と涼しい。2010年の都市的地域の人口は217万人であり、世界第183位である。)ぐらいで、あと悪化しているところはデトロイト、香港、モスクワぐらいだ。

昨日は社員との会食をした。そのあと、本を十数箱倉庫に持って行った。夜は元大連の総経理で、今は独立して大成功した欒さんと会食した。夜は１１時まで仕事をしたが、確かに寝不足していたので、きつかった。４時起床したが、最近は睡眠時間が５、６時間と短い。今日は三菱樹脂の元社長の吉田さんとの会食がある。今日の時間は研修資料の作成に使う。ではまた明日。