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Are You ＂In the Red＂ This Christmas? 这个圣诞你赤字了吗? Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English program about American expressions. Im Rich Kleinfeldt with some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series on learning disabilities with a problem that is not considered a learning disability by itself, but it can af fect learning. Our subject is attention deficit disorder, A.D.D.,

AP 2011-09-24

President Barack Obama wants 1.5 billiondollars in new taxes as a part of deficit reduction plan. The proposal mostlyhit in up the income tax payers. Republicans were quick to attack the plan, sayit's not a recipe for economic growth. Ten persons has

AP 2011-09-23

1. President Obama presents his long-term deficit reduction plan today. It includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes mainly on the wealthy. The plan is seen as having little chance of making it through Congress. 2. It's still the nation's deadliest air rac

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CNN 2011-02-05

Well, one government agency is predicting that the U.S. will have a deficit in 2011. A big deficit. In a report that came out yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO forecast that the U.S. government will spend $1.5 trillion more than it m

AP 2011-02-17

1. Egypt's military leaders have met two key demands of anti-government protesters, dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. After nearly three weeks of protests, President Hosni Mubarak resigned on Friday, leaving the military to be th

AP 2011-02-18

1. It's the battle of the budgets with Republicans calling President Barack Obama's deficit cutting plans too timid. His spending plan adds to deficits this year and next. The GOP is saying Americans want dramatic cuts. 2. Egypt's ruling military cou

AP 2011-04-22

1. Stocks plunged as Standard Poor's Rating Service lowered the long term outlook on US debt to negative from stable. SP says it has little confidence that Washington will produce a deficit reduction plan before the 2012 elections. 2. North Carolina

AP 2012-02-17

1. Sources say Whitney Houston's body will be taken home to New Jersey late Monday for a funeral to be held at week's end. Meanwhile police say Houston was found in a tub and unconscious in a Beverly Hills hotel Saturday. It could be weeks before a c

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Lexington 莱克星顿 Fun on a budget 预算趣录 Congress is incapable of restraining spending. It should let the president try 国会无力控制开支，也许该放手让总统一试 AT THE end of Barack Obama's budget, which was published on F

U.S. fiscal deficit issue is manageable

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Obama: Time to Create the Energy Security Trust

U.S. President Barack Obama says the only way to break the cycle of spiking gas prices is to shift cars and trucks off of oil for good. He said that is why he asked Congress in his State of the Union address to establish an Energy Security Trust to i

AP 2011-02-04

1. President Obama devoted most of his State of the Union address to the economy. He said creating jobs will require new investments in education, research and infrastructure. The GOP response called for deep federal spending cuts to get the deficit

AP 2011-08-15

1. Conservative Texas Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling has been chosen to co-chair a powerful new committee. It's supposed to find a bipartisan plan to cut the federal budget deficit by more than $1 trillion. 2. Another down day on Wall Street.

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每日一词【1150】balloon：气球

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After months of partisan gridlock, both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved a bill to raise the federal borrowing limit and cut government spending. Tuesdays 74 - 26 Senate vote came one day after the bill passed in the House of Representatives

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本期内容： An IMF briefing paper released in the run-up to this weekends G20 meeting said forceful policy actions would save the world economy from a low-growth trap. British manufacturing hit a 10-month high. Italys prime minister said he would