美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-09

1: NASA plans to land Discovery Tuesday in Florida, California, or maybe New Mexico, a day after low clouds kept the space shuttle and its crew from returning to earth.

2 :ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings, the urbane 1 Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the nightly news to Americans in five separate decades died Sunday at age 67.

3 :Iran resumes uranium conversion 2 activities at one of its nuclear facilities despite European and American warnings of possible UN sanctions against Teheran.

4: President Bush signs a Massive Energy Bill that gives energy firms billions of dollars in tax subsidies 3 , but does little to quickly ease gas prices or US reliance on foreign oil .

5: And thousands fill the streets of Medellin, Columbia this weekend for the city's annual flower fair as dozens of local residents paraded various floral arrangements.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. anchor
anchor anchors
The anchor on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it. (mainly AM)
He worked in the news division of ABCmhe was the anchor of its 15-minute evening newscast.
N-COUNT
= anchorman, anchorwoman

2. urbane
urbane
Someone who is urbane is polite and appears comfortable in social situations.
She describes him as urbane and charming.
In conversation, he was suave 4 and urbane.
ADJ-GRADED
= cultured * gauche 5
· urbanity
Fearey had all the charm and urbanity of the trained diplomat 6.
N-UNCOUNT
= refinement 7

3. sanction
sanction sanctions
Sanctions are measures taken by countries to restrict trade and official contact with a country that has broken international law.
The continued abuse of human rights has now led the United States to impose sanctions against the regime.
He expressed his opposition 8 to the lifting of sanctions.
N-PLURAL: oft N against/on n

4. subsidy 9
subsidy subsidies
A subsidy is money that is paid by a government or other authority in order to help an industry or business, or to pay for a public service.
European farmers are planning a massive demonstration 10 against farm subsidy cuts.
They've also slashed 11 state subsidies to utilities and transportation.
N-COUNT

5. fair
fair fairs
A fair is an event at which people display and sell goods, especially goods of a particular type.
...an antiques fair.
N-COUNT: oft n N

See also craft fair, trade fair.

6. parade
parade parades parading paraded
When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them.
More than four thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysee.
Everybody was beginning to parade back to the village.
VB

7. floral
floral
You can use floral to describe something that contains flowers or is made of flowers.
...eye-catching floral arrangements.
ADJ: ADJ n