报纸互联网广告合作互利互存

The newspaper industry has worried about increasing competition from internet companies for classified advertising, or local advertising by individual people for jobs and items for sale. A group of seven US newspaper chains representing 176 daily ne

经济学大师佛里德曼逝世

Influential economist Milton Friedman died at the age of 94 last week. The 1976 Nobel Prize winner's belief in free markets influenced the policies of Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and US presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald For

德国大众高层变动，盛传保时捷收购在即

Management changes at Volkswagen have led to rumors of a potential takeover by Porsche, another German carmaker. The company's supervisory board forced out CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder recently, and Wolfgang Bernhard, the head of the VW brand, has just

中俄签订17项协议合作再次加强

Russian and Chinese representatives signed 17 agreements covering energy, scientific cooperation, mining, car assembly, and more. Russia will build two natural gas pipelines to China and, to bring oil to northeast China, they will add a new branch t

英国一糖果公司巧克力含沙门氏菌遭起诉

The city council of Birmingham, England, is prosecuting candy and beverage company Cadbury Schweppes for manufacturing and selling chocolate contaminated with salmonella bacteria last year. The company recalled more than one million chocolate bars,

默多克耐心等待收购《华尔街日报》

Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate the News Corporation has bid $5 billion for Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal newspaper. There had been no announcement that Dow Jones was available for sale. Although the Dow Jones board of

汤姆森准备收购路透社

The News Corporation is not the only media conglomerate trying to buy a well-known financial news publisher. British news and financial information provider Reuters announced that Canada's Thomson Corporation has made a bid to buy them out. Thomson

委内瑞拉全部油田归国有

Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez celebrated May Day, the international workers' holiday, by issuing a decree that transferred control of the country's last privately owned oil fields to government control. The state will own at least 60% of every oil

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商务英语脱口说11

航空业并购时代？

It's also been a big week for more attempted airline buyouts. Air France-KLM, the result of a 2004 merger between two French and Dutch airlines into Europe's biggest airline, has begun talks to buy Alitalia, which is half owned by the Italian govern

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商务英语脱口说16

SONY PS3到处掀起热潮

Several days after long lines of people waited for hours in Japan to try to get one of the few Sony PlayStation 3 game machines being released to each store, the same thing happened in the United States. After being sold for 500 to 600 dollars aroun

保时捷增持大众汽车股票至30%

German sports car maker Porsche exercised an option on 3.6% of stock in German car maker Volkswagen. Because this puts their ownership in VW over 30%, German law required Porsche to make a takeover offer to other VW shareholders, so they did: 101 pe

美国AT&T公司欲收购意大利电信股份

Two North American mobile phone companies are trying to buy a controlling interest in Telecom Italia, Italy's largest telephone company, but there are complications. US company ATT and Mexico's America Mvil have made a combined offer of 4.5 billion

苹果公司将推出更高音质的无数字版权保护音乐

Computer company Apple Inc. had claimed that it was the record companies decision, not theirs, to offer music on their iTunes service that could only be played on their iPod player. Apple and the EMI music company have just announced that songs from

世行行长面临更大辞职压力

European leaders are pressuring Paul Wolfowitz to resign his position as Wold Bank president. Wolfowitz, who has withheld World Bank loans from several countries until they show greater progress in fighting corruption, recently arranged for his girl

Wal-Mart、Bharti将携手于印度开设零售卖场

The chairman of Indian telecommunications company Bharti Enterprises has announced a joint venture with Wal-Mart that will let the American superstore chain open hundreds of Wal-mart stores in India over the next five years. Large retailers such as

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Eight making telephone calls Dialogue one Hello, This is Alice from the Technology Department. . Would you mind telling me the phone number of your CEO ? Hello, This is Alice from the Technology Department. . Would you mind telling me the phone numbe

人教版英语新目标七年级下 Unit 9

[00:00.00]Unit 9 It's raining!SECTION A Activity 1b. [00:07.44]Listen and write these city names in the boxes above. [00:58.85]Activity 2a.Listen.Number[1-4]the pictures as you hear them. [01:50.86]Activity 2b.Listen again.Match the names with the ac

人教版英语新目标七年级下 Unit 8

[00:00.00]Unit 8 What is John Like?SECTION A [00:12.54]Activity 1b.Listen and find Billy,Angela,and Jane. [00:19.33]Number them in the pictures[1-3]. [01:05.33]Activity 2a.Listen and circle the words you hear. [02:13.43]Activity 2b.Listen again.Draw