THE MAKING OF A NATION - Little Known Democrat Defeats President Gerald Ford in 1976 Election STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at the pres

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Ghana's Electoral Commission has delayed the release of final results from Sunday's presidential run-off because of problems with voting materials in one of the country's 230 districts. Voters in that district will re-cast their ballots Friday. Ghan

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初级公司英语会话Lession10:利润成本分析 Listen to the dialogue between the Company president and chairman, P: We beat our profit forecast for the quarter, so weve got to be pleased. C: I agreed, although there are some areas of concern. P: Yes, but w

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General Douglas MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congr

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...in the summer. OK see you then. See you then.Now for most struggling singers, reaching a new audience / involves travelling the country / in a clapped-out transit van, playing on small stages in th

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Now then, if you could pick one thing which sums England up to you, what would it be? We've been asked to vote for the objects that most represent Englishness to help create an online portrait of Engl

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生词: drag queen:A male transvestite; also, a female impersonator

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本期难点 paltry: Lacking in importance or worth 在文中,是说博格坎普挣的比起小贝来,就有点微不足道了。 本期生词: flock: To congregate or travel in a flock or crowd

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IN THE NEWS - Burmas Elections a Test for Reforms 新闻报道 - 缅甸议会选举将成为改革验金石 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Burma is holding elections on Sunday. Voters will

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Words and Their Stories: Food Expressions, Part 3 词汇典故:食物相关表达方式 3 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. We present more expressions about food. They are from Elenir Scardueli, a listener in Brazil. 现在

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Run-Off Election to Decide Senegal Presidential Race In one scene of a 2000 video Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, then a charismatic opposition leader, cast his ballot. His election that year marked a peaceful transition from 40 years of single-

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Where is the bank? It's on Main Street. It's next to the post office. It's between the bakery and the barber shop. It's on the corner of Ninth Street and Pine (Street). Where's Lagoon? It's in Davis County, near Kaysville. It's on I-15, between Farmi

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We continue our conversation with Rutgers University English professor Jack Lynch. RS: His latest book is The Lexicographer's Dilemma. In it he challenges the idea of treating dic

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The Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial industry is the talk of Washington right now. But where exactly did the term bailout come from? In this special edition of Wordmaster, Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble turn to di

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Did a secret police infiltrator inside Fathers for Justice first propose the idea of kidnapping Tony Blair’s son? That's what some members of the organization now suspect. It started as a simple con

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本期难点 1. light the blue touch paper: Touch paper is the correct name of the impregnated material used in fireworks fuses. The original phrase (the instructions on fireworks) reads

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Think of crafts and perhaps corn dollies and threaded baskets come to mind. But now the annual COLLECT craft fair has opened at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and it's a very classy affair. On of

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本文看点 凯利发表的《新经济之新规则》一书提示了网络经济中取得成功的丰富法则 ――力量来源于丰富(Power comes from abundance), 这与传统的物以稀为贵(Value comes from scarcity)恰恰相反。一些明智

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Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar became a major partys candidate for the states 5th District in the United States Congress. Omar won the Democratic Partys primary election for the area on Tuesday. She is seeking to become the first refugee f

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After a tense impasse on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives passed legislation to extend a payroll tax cut for two months and continue unemployment insurance for nearly 2 million jobless Americans. The renewal comes ju

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