新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2013/06/26

Paul James with you on this Wednesday, June 26th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this morning... Russian President Vladimir Putin says the NSA whistleblower is still at the air

新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 13:00 2013/06/26

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Astronauts from the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft land safely back on earth. WHILE The US Secretary of State says they arent looking for a confrontation with Russia over Edward Snowden.. And the Indian Prime Minister leads the mourn

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Broadcast: Mar 29, 2003 There has been an upset win for Canada at the World Figure Skating championships here in Washington. The ice dancing couple of Shae Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz edged Russia's

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U.S. lawmakers are considering a variety of reforms governing the finance industry, following the Wall Street crisis of 2008. But it still may not be enough to end financial abuses. Philip Alexiou | Washington DC 24 March 2010 The trading floor at th

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ObamaSeekstoEasePublicDoubtsonJobsPlan For the third time in a week, President Barack Obama is campaigning for his jobs plan in a state that could be crucial to his re-election effort. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than half of Americans do n

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tax Credits, Penalties And Age Rating: Parsing The GOP Health Bill

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today in Your Health, we answer some of your questions about the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. You've sent us many questions. And we've lined some of them up with NPR's health policy correspondent, Alison Ko

Markets Plunge; S&P, US Spar Over Rating Cut

Global financial markets continue to drop sharply in reaction to an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating and lingering concerns about European debt problems and global economic growth. In early Asia trading Tuesday, Japan's

The Horse and the Dog

A dog and a horse，which served the same peasant，began to discuss each other's merits，one day．How grand we are，to be sure！says Barbos．I shouldn't besorry if they were to turn you out of the farmyard．A noble service，indeed，to plough

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LONDON/NEW YORK, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The rating agency Moody's on Friday cut the sovereign credit rating of Greece to the lowest level, saying the country's default risk was high. Moody's downgraded Greece long term sovereign credit rating from Ca to

S&P Downgrades French Credit Rating

Standard Poor's Friday downgraded the credit ratings of nine European countries caught up in the eurozone crisis. This includes France, which has Europe's second-largest economy. SP's downgrade of France's credit rating has been expected for weeks. F

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Credit rating agency Standard and Poors has revised Nigeria's economic outlook from stable to positive. In a statement, the rating agency says the Nigerian government, under President Goodluck Jonathan, has undertaken several important reform initiat

Rating Agency Downgrades US Credit Outlook

Standard and Poor's Ratings Services announced Monday that the United States continues to have a AAA [Triple-A] credit rating, but the rating agency lowered its long-term credit outlook for the U.S. government. SP cited U.S. budget deficits and gover

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I give you my word of honour, there's no one painting to-day in whose talent I am more convinced. 我拿名誉向你担保，在所有这些画家里，再没有谁比他更有天才了。 Take my word for it, you are missing a good affair. 你相信我

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Two rating agencies, Standard and Poors (S P) and Fitch downgraded New Zealands credit rating from AA+ to AA. This is the first downgrade in 13 years. A credit rating gives some idea of whether the economy is stable and whether the government can pay

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The credit rating agency Standard Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country's elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a negative outlook. In a statement late Friday, SP said it made the move because the deficit-r

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A major financial services company says that Italy faces a significant chance of having its credit rating cut soon, but that it has no plans to downgrade France's top credit standing. Fitch Ratings said Tuesday it is confident that the 17-nation Euro

S&P Cuts Italy's Credit Rating

Standard Poors has cut Italy's credit rating, citing weak economic growth and political uncertainty. The credit rating agency cut Italy's rating one notch Monday - from A+ to A. SP said the country's shaky coalition government and differences in parl

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress are engaged in an intense rush to settle on a plan to raise the countrys borrowing limit beyond the current total of more than $14 trillion. It is an effort aimed at averting a possible default on the countrys

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virtue n.美德；优点，长处 A man of virtue is a man of principle. He will never do anything against his conscience. 有美德的人即是有原则的人。他绝不会做任何违背良心的事。 This plan has the virtue of being easy to car