From NPR News in Washington, Im Louis Givorni. As midnight deadline approaches, President Obama is signaling that a budget deal to avert the fiscal cliff is within side, but NPRs Scott Horsley reports that there are still details to air out. Presiden

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Woodside has lost $1.5 billion in value after announcing a cost blowout on one of its LNG projects. The company has revealed its Pluto project in WA's northwest is over budget by almost $1 billion. It was due to start production in December, but that

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朝鲜发射洲际弹道导弹 This is AP news minute. President Donald Trump is criticizing top democrats after no show at a meeting Tuesday to discuss the budget to avert a government shutdown next week. The Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and

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Senior Citizens Express Anxiety About US Budget Cuts The volunteers and staff at Meals on Wheels in Takoma Park, Maryland feed two meals a day to between 30 to 40 home-bound senior citizens and disabled clients. Many of the volunteers are seniors the

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President Obama is confirming he has authorized targeted air strikes in Iraq and said US planes conducted delivery of humanitarian aid to a wreckage trapped by Islamic militants. The President entered an address from the White House State Dining Room

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Last night, after weeks of long and difficult negotiations over our national budget, leaders of both parties came together to avert a government shutdown, cut spending, and invest in our future. This is good news for the American people. It means tha

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Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? 难道我们要祈求和卑下地哀求吗? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? 我们还有什么没有穷尽的办法吗? Let us not, I beseech you, deceive oursel

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divert v. 转移,转向,使高兴 例句:They diverted the river while they were building the dam. 建坝时,他们让河道转移方向. diversion n. 转移,转换,牵制,解决,娱乐 例句:I think her last argument was a div

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Lesson 19 Facing Your Fear 直面你的恐惧 Words: averse adj. 反对的,不愿意的 aversion n. 厌恶,憎恨 avert vt. 避免,规避 aviation n. 航空,航空学 aviator n. 飞行家 avid adj. 渴望的,热心的 avocation n. 副业,嗜好 avow v. 公开承认,公开宣称 awareness

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1. President Barack Obama says a fiscal cliff deal is still a work in progress. The president has stayed largely quiet this week as the White House and House Speaker John Boehner seek a way to avert a flurry of year-end tax increases and spending cut

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1.President Obama announces an ambitious plan to avert home foreclosures of people with troubled mortgages by coercing lenders to lower interest rates. The president is also backing legislation to give bankruptcy judges the power to alter mortgage t

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1. A protest at the US Embassy in Yemen's capital is the latest in response to an anti-Muslim film. Protesters were on the embassy's grounds after storming the gates. 2. The US has been tightening security at American missions around the world follow

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IN THE NEWS - US, Japan Meet in Women's World Cup; in Los Angeles, 'Carmageddon' 新闻报道 - 美国日本会师女足世界杯决赛 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Two of the world's fa

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Legislation proposed this week by U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd could result in big changes in the way financial institutions do business. Dodd, the Democratic Party chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, says the bill expands the Federal Reserve'

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 17 December 2007 A former Seoul mayor nicknamed the bulldozer is closing in on what experts predict will be a decisive victory in this week's South Korean presidential vote. Lee Myung-bak has aimed his campaign message straight at

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Michael Drudge The U.N. food agency says the government of Sudan must cooperate to avert famine in the western region of Darfur, where factional fighting has driven one-million people from their homes

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Palestinians in East Jerusalem are protesting what they say are preparations by Israel to demolish scores of Arab homes. The Arab residents accuse the Israelis of trying to push them out of Jerusalem, which both Israel and the Palestinians claim as t

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 February 2008 The United Nations is urgently appealing for more than $25 million to help some two million people in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan who are suffering from severe cold and energy shortages. The United

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Rosanne Skirble 03 December 2009 Increased walking and cycling will benefit health and climate more than lower emission vehicles Driving less, walking more, reducing household energy use and modifying diets can lessen the impact of global warming and

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Leading the news, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the government has still tried to verify reports that two notorious Australian jihadists have died fighting with Islamic state. The ABC understands Khaled Sharrouf and Mohammed Elomar died while fi

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