4. Business Report 商务报道 The United States Central Bank has cut interest rates. Policy makers of the Federal Reserve【联邦储备局】lowered the banks main interest rate by one half percentage point to six percent. The goal is to prevent the economy

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UN Head: Mediterranean Migration Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since WWII 地中海发生最大移民海难 欧盟应一致应对人道危机 AUGUSTA, ITALY More migrants have been brought ashore in southern Italy, after the visit Monday by United Nation

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Study: Immigrants Benefit NYC Economy, Quality of Life 研究表明移民促进纽约经济,提高生活水平 NEW YORK New York has long been a magnet for immigrants looking for a better life. A new independent research study also shows that immig

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Thailand's government hopes new legislation will curb official corruption. But some business-risk experts say the chief concern in fighting corruption in Thailand lies in political will and government stability. 泰国政府希望新的立法能限制官

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President Barack Obama is promoting recent government action to spur job creation, while Republicans maintain focus on trying to discredit last year's health care reform law. 奥巴马总统正在推动政府最近增加就业机会的行动,而共和

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[00:05.32]immense:a.极广大的,无边的;(口)极好的 [00:07.49]immigrant:n.(外来)移民;a.移民的,迁入的 [00:09.50]implication:n.牵涉,含义,暗示,言外之意 [00:11.72]import:vt./n.输入,进口,引进 [00:13.81]imp

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A key Democratic lawmaker has outlined his plans to use legislation the U.S. Congress would approve in coming months to impose greater controls on financial firms to protect investors and help avoid another financial system collapse. Republicans step

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Oil Boom Tests North Dakota Legislative Tradition 石油繁荣考验北达科他州的立法传统 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA North Dakota is one of four U.S. states with a legislature that meets only once every two years. But, the energy boom in Western

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African Nations Hope to Benefit From Renewed US Legislation 非洲国家希望从美国新立法中受益 The United States and African nations hold the first conference this week in Gabon on the African Growth and Opportunities Act since Congress re

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By Deborah Tate Washington 20 September 2007 The U.S. Senate has rejected, by a 28 to 70 vote, a Democratic-sponsored measure to withdraw troops from Iraq and cut funding for the war. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill. The measure, propose

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Revised legislation to rescue America's financial institutions has cleared its first hurdle, winning approval in the U.S. Senate. The bill could face a tougher test Friday in the House of Representatives. 经过修改的拯救美国金融机构的立法

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Americans go to the polls Tuesday to vote for members of the U.S. Congress as well as the president. All 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be up for election, along with will more than one-third of the 100-member Senate. Democrats

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Louise Slaughter Was Congress's Food Safety Champion Legislation to restrict the current overuse, I would say abuse, of antibiotics by farmers who raise livestock for human consumption.Louise Slaughter, member of Congress from upstate New York, in 20

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Even good British companies have been affected by the impact of low skilled migrant workers. Take Tesco. A good employer and an important source of jobs in Britain. They take on young people, operate apprenticeships and training schemes and often rec

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Since my last speech 2009, despite a lot of mentor in training program, despite this is easy to roll out sulution. The fact is, situation is deteriorated badly. Between 2006 and 2012, the number of black like me work in the UK TV industry has decline

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Chinese authorities have said that all those still serving time in labour camps will be released today. But they added that the penalties handed out before the abolition of the labour camps will still be considered legitimate. The Vice director of th

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今天我们要学的词是specifics。 Specifics, 具体内容。美国亚利桑那州图森市枪击事件两个月后,奥巴马呼吁重新讨论有关枪支管制的立法。 President Obama didn't offer any specifics, but anticipated political

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Two former U.S. Secretaries of State are recommending that the United States change its procedures for deciding to go to war. 两位前美国国务卿建议,美国改变本国参战的程序。 James Baker and Warren Christopher say a U.S. presiden

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【今日一句】 People legislate continually by means of talk. 人们用讲话不断地制订着法律。 【要点】 by means of【要点发音】 [bai 'mi:nz ?v] 【要点释义】 依靠,用,借助于【要点强化】 They succeeded by me

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今天我们要学的词是gun control。 Gun control, 枪支管制。 The deadly shooting in Tuscon re-energized gun control advocates, 图森发生的造成多人死伤的枪击事件让主张枪支管制的人重新振作。 The shooting has broug

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