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The Christmas season in Spain begins with the drawing of the numbers for the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo. This year, El Gordo (or The Fat One) paid out more than 2 billion to lucky ticket holders across Spain, with 18 million going to Rebollo
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
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
How do you like to fly, first class, business, or economy? Unfortunately, it is not a choice the majority of us have. If you are like me, the only time you get to see business or first class is on your way to the economy section. Well, on the new sta
In December of 2004, IBM sold their personal computer division to Chinese computer company Lenovo for $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock. IBM has just sold off 300 million shares of Lenovo stock, going from a 13.2% ownership in the compa
The American stock exchange NASDAQ is giving up on their hostile takeover attempt for the London Stock Exchange. They had insisted that LSE shares were overvalued and that the $24.35 per share that they offered was fair, but they only received accep
China's Forbidden City may become forbidden for the Starbucks chain of coffee shops. Chinese nationalists have protested the Starbucks outlet in the Imperial Palace since it opened in 2000, and an online campaign begun by a television host has led t
Apple and Apple have settled their long trademark dispute. Steve Jobs' company, which just renamed themselves from Apple Computer to Apple Inc., and Apple Corps, the company that has overseen the interests of British pop group the Beatles since they
A Dell is running Dell again. Michael Dell, who began Dell Inc. by building computers in his University of Texas dorm room for other students, is moving back into the position of chief executive at the company. He replaces Kevin Rollins after a year
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Twenty months after founding the video website YouTube, founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have accepted a $1.65 billion offer for the company from search engine Google. YouTube has become famous for providing videos of everything from last night's
Several days after Columbia University's Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theories about the relationship between inflation and unemployment, the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to a man with some useful ideas about economics. Mu
British Petroleum has put someone new in charge of their operations in Alaska, where they spilled 800,000 gallons of oil in March and where they shut down the biggest oil field in the United States in August because of pipeline corrosion. BP is the
The International Monetary Fund is giving a bigger share of votes to Mexico, Turkey, South Korea, and especially China to account for the growing role their economies play in the world. The United States encouraged this change to give these countrie
After almost reaching $80 a barrel in July, oil prices have dipped below $64, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is worried about further price drops. At a meeting in Vienna, the cartel of mostly mideastern oil-producin
Shareholders of the telecommunications equipment manufacturers Alcatel and Lucent have approved an $11 billion merger of the two companies. The new company, which will be called Alcatel Lucent, will be the world's largest telecommunications equipmen
Hello. Is Susan there?喂,是苏珊吗? Who?谁啊? Tian Yuan.田园。 You must have the wrong number.你一定打错电话了。 Oh, I'm sorry.噢,对不起。 Is Li Ying in?李英在家吗? Wrong number.打错电话了。 Isn'
Shall I tell him you called?我告诉他你来过电话,好吗? I'll be here when he calls back. Much appreciated.他打电话时我会在这,太感谢你了! That's fine. I'll await his return call.很好。我会等他的来电。 B
Let me confirm your name and room number.我需要确定一下您的姓名和房间号码。 This is Gao Qiang in Room 409.我是409房间的高强。 Mr. Gao in Room 409.409房间的高先生。 OK. We'll ring you up at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow.嗯,我们